Imran's Poetry

Mar 30, 2015

Best Quotes on Dreams (Part 1)

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ― C.S. Lewis

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. ― John Lennon

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. ― Steven Spielberg

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ― Eleanor Roosevelt

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. ― Oprah Winfrey

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. ― Swami Vivekanada

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ― Langston Hughes

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ― Eugene Ionesco

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better. ― Brian Schweitzer

Dreams are necessary to life. ― Anaïs Nin

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. ― Joy Page

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ― Walt Disney

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ― Mark Twain

No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big. ― Anon.

A goal is a dream with a deadline. ― Napolean Hill

Best Quotes of Charlie Chaplin (Part 2)

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Humor is the sublime wisdom of pity and tolerance in which man recognizes the utter futility of his own enterprise and importance.

Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Best Quotes of Charlie Chaplin (Part 1)

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

We think too much and feel too little.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It puts me on a far higher place than any politician.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Best Quotes of Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

To a young heart everything is fun.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Best Quotes of Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Best Quotes On Business (Part 2)

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. ― Andrew Carnegie

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ― Laurence J. Peter

The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place. ― Orison Swett Marden

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. ― Richard Branson

A man should never neglect his family for business. ― Walt Disney

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ― Henry Ford

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ― Richard Branson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ― Thomas Watson, Sr.

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. ― Ray Kroc

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it. ― Gary Hamel

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ― Senator Everett Dirksen

Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence. ― Vince Lombardi

Best Quotes On Business (Part 1)

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter. ― John Gottman

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. ― Chinese Proverb

Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong. ― Donald Porter

Every great business is built on friendship. ― J.C. Penney

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ― Henry Ford

The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do. ― Kevin Stirtz

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit. ― Aristotle

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time. ― Owen Fellt

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die. ― Stanley Bing

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you. ― Benjamin Franklin

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. ― Aristotle

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. ― Niccolo Machiavelli

Best Quotes On Books (Part 2)

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ― Cassandra Clare

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. ― J.K. Rowling

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. ― Jules Verne

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ― Franz Kafka

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ― Hermann Hesse

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ― Italo Calvino

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? ― David Baldacci

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ― Anatole France

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ― Anon

A house without books is like a room without windows. ― Horace Mann

Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. ― Jesse Lee Bennett

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. ― Vera Nazarian

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ― Harold Bloom If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! ― John Waters

Best Quotes On Books (Part 1)

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ― Marcus Tullius

Cicero The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ― Jane Austen

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ― Jorge Luis Borges

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ― Groucho Marx

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ― Lemony Snicket

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. ― Mark Twain

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ― Oscar Wilde

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. ― John Green

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ― Joseph Brodsky

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. ― Roald Dahl

Think before you speak. Read before you think. ― Fran Lebowitz

Never judge a book by its movie. ― J.W. Eagan

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ― Marcus Tullius

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ― Humphrey Carpenter

Books are the mirrors of the soul. ― Virginia Woolf

Waqat kabhi bhi badal sakta hai

Pyari Baat

Jab saamp zinda ho to woh chi'untiyan khata hai

Aur jab saamp mar jaye to chi'untiyan ussay khati hain

Waqat kabhi bhi badal sakta hai

Aik darakh se 1 laakh machis ki teeliyan banti hain

Magar aik machis ki teeli aik laakh darakht jala sakti hai

To zindagi main kabhi kisi ko mat satana shayed aap taqat war ho

Magar mat bholo waqat aap se ziyada taqat war hai