Attia Hosain Quotes

You’ll understand one day how murderous, how suicidal, individual isolation is. You’ll cry then, suffocated by our culture’s cannibal loving.

Attia Hosain

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• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  

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• Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.

  

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• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

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• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
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• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
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• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

  

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• Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
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• He who knows himself is enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Himself
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  • He

• 'I think it is so glorious,' said the American. 'There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.'

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • World
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• The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Understanding
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• Our top schools are obsessed with race, class, and gender but apparently not rigorous in cross-examining the fables and pop fads of their students.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson

• A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that 'all of our problems' come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Up
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• You live day by day. You can't build your life.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
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  • Live

• I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

  

  Jessica Savitch

• In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

  

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  • World
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• Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

  

  Patti Smith

• It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Culture
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• I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

  

  Kimberly Caldwell
  • Up
  • Different
  • Air

• You’ll understand one day how murderous, how suicidal, individual isolation is. You’ll cry then, suffocated by our culture’s cannibal loving.

  

  Attia Hosain
  • Culture
  • Loving
  • Isolation