"Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote."

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Meaningful Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Islamic Quotes

“Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.”

Source : 'Not Waving but Drowning' (1957)
“If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.”
“I think I just do what I feel is good to do. Everybody can give me their suggestions, but at the end, the final risk is mine because it's my name on the magazine. So I only do what I really feel. Everybody tries to influence you, of course: "Oh, this is the right moment to do this" and "This is the right photographer to choose," and "This is the right model to have . . ." I listen, but I must go my own way. When you take risks, it means that you know every month people are there to judge you.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have.”
“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.”
“Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.”

Source : Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.328, Macmillan
“From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist!”

Source : "Genie Francis Promises to Deliver Another Emotional Note". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. January 30, 2009.
“These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.”

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