Aftab Alam Quotes

Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet.

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Baby
  • Born
  • Texas

• My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • Dresses
  • Girly

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• It is always your next move.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Move
  • Next

• You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Excitement

• Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Time
  • Long
  • Cute

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Generation
  • Heritage

• I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Chaos
  • Enjoying

• I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True

• Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Bad
  • Design

• I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'

  

  Edward Heath

• Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you … more proud...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • People
  • Single
  • Friend

• We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Chance
  • Monarchy
  • Aristocracy

• Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Brain

• It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

  

  J Mascis
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Play

• I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Never
  • Media
  • Propaganda

• A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart sing We said Then spoke the poor dead thistle, "But I, how shall I dance?" Let your heart fly to the wind We said. Then God spoke from above "How shall I descend from the blue?" Come dance for us here in the light We said. All the valley is dancing Together under the sun, And the heart of him who joins us not Is turned to dust, to dust.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • God
  • Heart
  • Together

• Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet.

  

  Aftab Alam
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Crush