"This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world."

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Source : Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, Faber & Faber

Nadeem Aslam

#Heart Quotes #World Quotes #Enough Quotes

“It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you....”

Source : "Jack and Suzy Welch: Why Strong Leadership Is about Truth and Trust". Knowledge@Wharton Interview, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 8, 2015.
“Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”
“The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.”
“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.”
“I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.”
“When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism.”

Source : Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" by the United States Congress, (p. 157), 1960.
“When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.”

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