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“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
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“Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we're forced to undergo the event twice-once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.”
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“If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.”
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“There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.”
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“What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging.”
Source : "Pakistan, a Dream Gone Sour". Book by Roedad Khan, 1997.
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“There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.”
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“I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.”
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“So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?”
Source : Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.56, Usborne Publishing Ltd
