Ink Quotes - Page 2

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!

There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.

Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.

It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking khamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don't mind it?

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.

If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is culpable; if he gets drunk twice a month it is better; if once a month, this is still more laudable; and if one does not drink at all what can be better? But where can I find such a man? If such a man were found he would be worthy of the highest esteem.

I think a woman looks best in a sari.

Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?

Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.