Falguni Nayar Quotes

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Quran I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world.

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

The reason why all those we have mentioned hold false opinions and make impious or ignorant assertions about God appears to be nothing else but this, that scripture is not understood in its spiritual sense, but is interpreted according to the bare letter.

The sea is the obsession of the poet, because the first poetic rhythm, or the first sense of poetic rhythm, was born of the motion of the waves.

But I believe without any doubt at all that our greatest good fortune was that even in the most extreme difficulties we might lose our patience but never our sense of humor.

When one door is closed, many more is open.