XII ENGLISH QUOTATIONS FOR QUESTION-ANSWERS

Twenty Minutes with Mr. Oakentubb

Revenge is a virus which eats into the very vitals of the mind and
poisons the entire spiritual being.
JAMES ALLEN
The Devoted Friend
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
— G. Randolf

Act III of The Silver Box

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects
one directly, affects all indirectly.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some

people and not be in favor of justice for all people.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The World As I See It
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
(Albert Einstein)

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

(Albert Einstein)

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

(Albert Einstein)

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones."
(Albert Einstein)
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior
spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with
our frail and feeble mind."
(Albert Einstein)
Reflections on the Reawakening East
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms.
The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and
bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence,
empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who
desired their own happiness more than they desired the
unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

Pakistan and the Modern World

“Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind,
and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very
story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great
odds and difficulties.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The Day the Dam Broke

Always remember ... rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools,
and accepted by idiots.
ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR
Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL
Rumors are like matter. They can't be destroyed.
JOHN C. MOWEN
An Astronomer’s View of the Universe / Life in the Universe

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and
beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he
lives."

- Socrates, Philosopher

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this
world to another."

- Plato, Philosopher

"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the
heavens."

- Anaxagoras, Philosopher

"Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of
the universe."

- Maria Mitchell, Astronomer

"Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

PRISONER OF ZENDA (QUOTATIONS)

“Honour binds a woman too, Rudolf. My honour lies in being
true to my country and my House. I don’t know why God has
let me love you; but I know that I must stay.”

(Princess Flavia)

“A real king’s life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king’s

is, I warrant, much harder.”

(Rudolf Rassendyll)

“If love were the only thing, I would follow you—in rags, if need
be—to the world’s end; for you hold my heart in the hollow of
your hand! But is love the only thing?”

(Princess Flavia)

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave, I would have him a debonair knave, and I
liked Rupert Hentzau better than his long-faced, close-eyed companions.
(Rudolf Rassendyll)

THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

T. S. Eliot
 THE MAN OF LIFE UPRIGHT
All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief
and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.
Thomas Campion

LINES FROM SAMSON AGONISTES

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of
the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he
crushes both them and himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

LINES FROM AN ESSAY ON MAN

Fate means seeing the hand of God move clearly through your life, even with
your eyes closed. Rusty Fischer

Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate
allows you. Horace

Actions are the seed of fate. Harry S Truman

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate
brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D.
Roosevelt

LINES FROM ULYSSES

SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NAUGHT AVAILETH
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and
struggle.” — Napoleon Hill

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. — Mao

Zedong

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat;

the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the
deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. — F. Scott
Fitzgerald

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter
us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. — Abraham
Lincoln.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. — Bernadette

Devlin

Life is one long struggle in the dark. — Lucretius

MUSIC WHEN SOFT VOICES DIES

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its

own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

LINES FROM ENDYMION

‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’. (John Keats)
‘A Thing of Beauty is a joy forever’. (John Keats)
I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter. (John
Keats)

THE LOST STAR

“Indeed, Allah (God) will not change the condition of a people until they change
what is in themselves.” Qur’an 13:11

“And He found you lost and guided [you]. And He found you poor and made [you]
self-sufficient.” Quran 93:7-8

THE SOLITARY REAPER

‘Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:
it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.’
(William Wordsworth)
Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and
cannot be destroyed.
William Wordsworth