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Quotations are present for the following essays
❖ My aim in life(6-8)
❖ Ideal student(8-10)
❖ My first day at college(10-12)
❖ My last day at college(12-13)
❖ Visit to a historical place(14)
❖ Visit to a hill station(15-16)
❖ If I were a millionare(16)
❖ My hero in history(16-18)
❖ My favourite book(19-21)
❖ Life in a village(21-22)
❖ Life in a city(22-24)
❖ Horrors of war(24-27)
❖ Computer(27-29)
❖ Atomic energy(29-31)
❖ My favourite teacher(31-32)
❖ The Holy Prophet(SAW) (32-33)
❖ Our religion(33-35)
❖ Modern age and its victories(36)
❖ Kashmir issue(37-38)
❖ An accident I have witnessed(38-39)
❖ Education of women(39-40)
❖ Pollution(40-41)
❖ Characteristics of a happy life(42)
❖ Scientific Knowledge(43-44)
❖ Television(45-46)
❖ Courtesy(47-49)
❖ A Dream(49-52)
❖ Terrorism(52-54)
❖ My favourite writer(55-56)
❖ Education(57-61)
❖ Newspapers(61-62)
❖ Cricket match(63-65)
❖ Health is wealth(65-68)
❖ My hobby(68-70)
❖ Muslim Unity(71)
❖ My college Library(72-74)
❖ A house on fire(74)
❖ Drugs(74-75)
❖ If I were a Principal(76)
❖ The influence of media(76-77)
❖ Blessings of nature(78-81)
❖ Judicial system of Pakistan(82)
❖ Dignity of work(83-85)
❖ Inflation(85-87)
❖ Industrial exhibition(87)
❖ A rainy day(88-89)
❖ Energy crisis(89-90)
❖ Street crimes(90-92)
❖ Autobiography of a book(92-93)
❖ Bad manners(93-95)
❖ The status of a teacher in our society(95-96)
❖ Pakistan as an Ideological(97)
❖ Politics(97-98)
❖ Patriotism(99-101)
❖ Democracy(101-104)
❖ War against terrorisom(104-105)
❖ SAARC(106)
❖ Extremism(106-107)
❖ Poverty(108-110)
❖ Child labour(110)
❖ Overpopulation(111-113)
❖ Suicide attacks(113-114)
❖ Role of media(114-115)
❖ Freedom of speech(115-116)
❖ Our examination system(117-118)
❖ Students Union(118-119)
❖ Science is a curse(119-120)
❖ Why I love Pakistan(120)
❖ Picnic(120-121)
❖ Dengue(121)
❖ Traffic system(121-122)
❖ Corruption(122-124)
❖ Technical education(124-125)
❖ Christmas(126-127)
❖ Historical buildings of Lahore(127-128)
❖ Internet(128-129)
❖ Unemployment(130)
❖ An ideal teacher(131-132)
❖ My favourite poet(132-134)
❖ Importance of games(134)
❖ Wonders of science(135-136)
❖ My best friend(136-137)
❖ A visit to a museum(137-138)
❖ A hockey match(138-139)
❖ An ideal citizen(139-140)
MY AIM IN LIFE
“A useless life is an early death.”
~Goethe ~
“People never improve unless they look to some
standard or higher example and better than
themselves.”
~Tyron Edwards ~
“It matters not how long we live but how.”
~Bailey ~
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be
aware, joyously, drunkly, serenely, divinely aware.”
~Henry Miller ~
“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show
compassion and the will to help others.”
~Albert Schweitzer ~
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to
die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature
man is that he wants to live humbly for one”
~Wilhelm Stekel ~
“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not
suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to
its purpose in the world.”
~Arthur Schopenhauer~
~Logan P. Smith~
“The mere act of aiming at something big makes you
big.”
~Jawaharlal Nehru~
“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
“Future favours the bold.”
~Anonymous~
“An early death is better than an aimless life.”
~Anonymous~
“A noble aim is simply a noble deed.”
~Anonymous~
“My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a
bonus.”
~Anonymous~
“Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you
love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
~David Frost~
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting
our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our
aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
~Michelangelo~
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward
appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
~Aristotle~
“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good
for something.”
~Henry David Thoreau~
IDEAL STUDENT
“I was a great student at a great school.”
~Donald Trump~
“You are always a student, never a master you have to
keep moving forward.”
~Comad till~
“An Ideal student puts first things first.”
~Anonymous~
IF I WERE A MILLIONARE
“A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he
were rich.”
~John Jacob Astor~
“Who wants to be a millionaire?”
~Cole Porter~
MY HERO IN HISTORY
“The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great
men.”
~Anonymous~
“Great people aren’t those who are happy at times of
convenience and content, but of how they are in times
of catastrophe and controversy.”
~Martin Luther King~
“Great spirits have always encountered violent
oppositions from mediocre minds.”
~Albert Einstein~
“Every man dies only great truly hive.”
~ Braveheart~
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not
attained by sudden flight.”
~Long Fellow~
“Fame is perfume of heroic deeds.”
~Anonymous~
“Words are the more powerful drugs used by heroes.”
~Anonymous~
“We may have thunder, we may have rain
But great men once departed, will never come again”
~Anonymous~
“A hero is someone who understands the
responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
~Bob Dylan~
“A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.”
~Anonymous~
MY FAVOURITE BOOK
“The things I want to know are in books; my best
friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”
~Abraham Lincoln~
“You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long
enough to suit me.”
~C. S. Lewis~
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of
reading, to make reading one of his deep and
continuing needs, is good for him.”
~Maya Angelou~
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over
again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
~Oscar Wilde~
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written.”
~Oscar Wilde~
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a
book, pass an examination, and finish with education.
The whole of life, from the moment you are born to
the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
~Jiddu Krishnamurti~
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel
read only a page.”
~Saint Augustine~
“You cannot open a book without learning
something.”
~Confucius~
LIFE IN A VILLAGE
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
~Keats~
“Love beauty(nature), it is the shadow of god on the
universe.”
~Gabriela Mistral~
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
“I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.”
~Julies~
“I’m every woman. It takes a village to make me who I
am.”
~Katy Puny~
LIFE IN A CITY
“God made the country, & man made the town.”
~William Cowper~
“The city is not a concrete jingle, it is a human zoo.”
~D. Morris~
“The city is what is because our citizens are what they
are.”
~Plato~
“Nature is a fortified magic city.”
~Anonymous~
“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for
the next week to get answer to a question.”
~Anonymous~
“Cities are just like cat’s eyes they show their beauty
at night.”
~Anonymous~
“If you would be known but not know, vegetate in a
village but if you know but not to be known, live in a
city.”
~Anonymous~
“Courtesy is the noblest weapon to conquer with.”
~Proverb~
“If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can
dream it you can become it.”
~Ward William~
“An empty mind is a devil’s workshop.”
~Anonymous~
“A city is a large community where people are
lonesome together.”
~Herbert Prochnow~
“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for
next week to get the answer to a question, to taste
the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to
and familiar ones to listen to again.”
~Margaret Mead~
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous
one.”
~Aristotle~
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and
women.”
~Walt Whitman~
HORRORS OF WAR
“War is the trade of kings.”
~John Dryden~
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no
matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a
good. We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.”
~Jimmy Carter~
“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
~Tony Benn~
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only
as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.”
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
~Benjamin Franklin~
“If you think of humanity as one large body, then war
is like suicide, or at best, self-mutilation.”
~Jerome P. Crabb~
“Accursed be he that first invented war.”
~Christopher Marlowe~
“When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die.”
~Jean Paul Sartre~
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of
peace.”
~Thomas Mann~
“War is an admission of failure.”
~K. J. Parker~
“All delays are dangerous in war.”
~John Dryden~
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will
be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks
and stones.”
~Albert Einstein~
“In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be
attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
~Winston Churchill~
“In war, truth is the first casualty.”
~Aeschylus~
“War is a severe doctor; but it sometimes heals
grievances.”
~Edward Counsel~
“A mind at peace does not engender wars.”
~Sophocles~
“Weakness and ambivalence lead to war.”
~George H.W. Bush~
“The act of war is the last option of a democracy.”
~Joseph C. Wilson~
“Wars of pen and ink often lead to wars of cannon and
bayonets.”
~Edward Counsel~
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking
animal.”
~John Steinbeck~
“Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge
dragnet sweeping up the world.”
~Homer~
“In war , resolution ; in defeat , defiance ; in victory ,
magnanimity ; in peace , goodwill.”
~Winston Churchill~
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is
strength.”
~George Orwell~
“War is too important to be left to the generals.”
~George Clemenceau~
“Pick battles big enough to matter , small enough to
win.”
~Jonathan Kozol~
COMPUTER
“It’s like a light bulb. When it’s broken, unplug it,
throw it away and plug in another.”
~Ted Hoff~
“No crash-proof system can be built unless it is made
for an idiot.”
~Ellen Ullman~
“The rise of computers … is forcing machinery to adapt
to our idiosyncratic humanity.”
~Thomas A.Stewart~
“Computer are like old testament gods; lots of rules &
no mercy.”
~Joseph Campbell~
“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things but
most of the things they make easier to do don’t need
to be done.”
~Aridy Rooney~
“Think? Why think! We have computers do that for
us.”
~Jean Rostauel~
“One of the most feared expression in modern times is
the computer is sown.”
~Norman Ralph Auguestin~
“Computer has virtually replaced tape recorders.”
~Tony Virconti~
“The computing field is always in need of new
clinches.”
~Alan Perlis~
“The great thing about a computer is that no matter
how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or
heavier.”
~Bill Gates~
“The question of whether a computer can think is no
more interesting than the question of whether a
submarine can swim.”
~E. W. Dijkstra~
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
~Isaac Asimov~
“Computers can figure out all kinds of problems,
except the things in the world that just don't add up.”
~James Magary~
ATOMIC ENERGY
“In the years since man unlocked the power stored up
within the atom, the world has made progress,
halting, but effective, toward bringing that power
under human control. The challenge may be our
salvation.”
~John F. Kennedy~
MY FAVOURITE TEACHER
“Those who educate children well are more to be
honored than they who produce them; for these only
gave them life, those arts of living well.”
~Aristotle~
“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up
learning a ton even when you don't know it.”
~Nicholas Sparks~
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my
teacher for living well.”
~ Alexander the Great~
“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A
murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A
teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his
influence stops.”
~Henry Adams~
“The task of the educator of young children lies in
seeing that the child does not confound good with
immobility and evil with activity.”
~Maria Montessori~
“A teacher is the one who, in his youth, admired
teachers.”
~H.L.Mencken~
“A teacher should have maximal authority and
minimal power.”
~Thomas Szasz~
“A teacher affects eternity.”
~Henry Adams~
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in
creative expression and knowledge.”
~Albert Einstein~
“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the
imagination, and instill a love of learning.”
~Brad Henry~
“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the
lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.”
~Elbert Hubbard~
OUR RELIGION
“I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah &
Peace.”
~Muhammad Ali~
“The united states is not & never will be at war with
Islam.”
~Barak Obama~
“Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I was born again.”
~Jermaine Jackson~
KASHMIR ISSUE
“As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been
an outstanding issue for more than half a century.”
~Li Peng~
“There is tremendous pressure on India and Pakistan
from the international community to resolve the
dispute ... I can tell you with authority that the
Kashmir issue is heading towards a resolution.”
~Yasin Malik~
“We hope that such actions against terrorist activities
targeting India, including Jammu and Kashmir, would
be pursued vigorously until cross-border terrorism in
our country is completely eliminated.”
~Jaswant Singh~
“The United States should have asked India to vacate
the Kashmir that it has illegally occupied. We are sons
of the soil and fighting for the liberation of our soil.”
~Syed Salahuddin~
“There is a growing realization in South Asia that
peace is vital for economic prosperity. An amicable
solution to Kashmir is key to peace and development
in the subcontinent.”
~Ajai Sahni~
“Though there has been no dramatic breakthrough on
Kashmir, both sides are reaching for, and plucking, the
low-hanging fruit of the peace tree.”
~Uday Bhaskar~
EDUCATION OF WOMEN
“Give me good mothers; I will give you a good nation.”
~Napoleon~
“It is obligatory for every Muslim (man and woman) to
gain/acquire knowledge.”
~The Holy Quran~
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you
can use to change the world.”
~Nelson Mandela~
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is, and
not by his talk.”
~Carl Jury~
“Women contemplating marriage should have
elementary courses in plumbing, electrical,
engineering and house-hold chemistry.”
~Alma Chesnul Moore~
POLLUTION
“It is not pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s
the impurities in our air & water that are doing it.”
~Dan~
“There’s so much pollution is the air now that if it
weren’t for our lungs there’d be no flow to put it all.
~Robert Orben~
TELEVISION
“A medium, so called because it is neither rare nor
well done.”
~Ernie Kovacs~
“All life's answers are on TV.”
~Matt Groening~
“Television is an invention that permits you to be
entertained in your living room by people you
wouldn't have in your home.”
~David Frost~
“Television was the ultimate evidence of cultural
anemia.”
~Roy A. K. Heath~
“Nothing is real unless it happens on television.”
~Daniel J. Boorstin~
“TV is the chewing gum for eyes.”
~Game Money~
“The mind is its own place and in itself can make a
heaver of hell of heaven.”
~Melton~
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those
who mind don’t matter and those matters don’t
mind.”
~Dr. Seuss~
COURTESY
“Civility costs nothing and buys everything.”
~Mary Wortley Montagu~
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it
shows he is a citizen of the world.”
~Francis Bacon~
“Do as you would be done by is the surest method
that I know of pleasing.”
~Lord Chesterfield~
“The right words at the right time can mark wonders.”
~Mark R. Littleton~
A DREAM
“A dream can be the highest point of a life.”
~Ben Okri~
“In a dream you are never eighty.”
~Anne Sexton~
“The future belongs to those who believe in the
beauty of their dreams.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt~
TERRORISM
“History is a bath of blood.”
~William James~
“The terrorist and the policeman both come from the
same basket.”
~Joseph Conrad~
“Terror is the fiercest nurse of cruelty.”
~Josiah Henson~
“Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible,
and demanding it at gunpoint.”
~Christopher Hitchens~
“Every leader, and every regime, and every
movement, and every organization that steps across
the line to terrorism must be banished from the
discourse of civilized human life.”
~Alan Keyes~
“Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to
pay the price, you must give up the empire.”
~Pat Buchanan~
MY FAVOURITE WRITER
“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn
the monsters loose.”
~Stephen King~
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
~Ernest Hemingway~
“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise
incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t
matter a damn how you write.”
~Somerset Maugham~
“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty
theme.”
~Herman Melville~
“My own experience is that once a story has been
written, one has to cross out the beginning and the
end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.”
~Anton Chekhov~
“First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow
him!”
~Ray Bradbury~
“Most of the basic material a writer works with is
acquired before the age of fifteen.”
~Willa Cather~
“Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.”
~Ayn Rand~
“People do not deserve to have good writing, they are
so pleased with bad.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
“It is the writer who might catch the imagination of
young people, and plant a seed that will flower and
come to fruition.”
~Isaac Asimov~
“The work never matches the dream of perfection the
artist has to start with.”
~William Faulkner~
“Writing is its own reward.”
~Henry Miller~
“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
~Joan Didion~
“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of
ending.”
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a
hundred, you have the odds in your favor.”
~Edgar Rice Burroughs~
EDUCATION
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you
can use to change the world.”
~Nelson Mandela~
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my
education.”
~Albert Einstein~
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to
entertain a thought without accepting it.”
~Aristotle~
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to
remember from time to time that nothing that is
worth knowing can be taught.”
~Oscar Wilde~
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
~Robert Frost~
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
~Benjamin Franklin~
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is
sweet.”
~Aristotle~
“Education is the best friend. An educated person is
respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty
and the youth.”
~Chanakya~
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of
a fire.”
William Butler Yeats~
“The goal of education is the advancement of
knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
~John F. Kennedy~
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
~Victor Hugo~
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will
never cease to grow.”
~Anthony J. D'Angelo~
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life
itself.”
~John Dewey~
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of
freedom.”
~George Washington Carver~
“The only person who is educated is the one who has
learned how to learn and change.”
~Carl Rogers~
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own
ignorance.”
~Will Durant~
“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts
trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
~Robert Frost~
“The direction in which education starts a man will
determine his future in life.”
~Plato~
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
~Theodore Roosevelt~
“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
~Leo Buscaglia~
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he
is educated.”
~Horace Mann~
“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with
an open one.”
~Malcolm Forbes~
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a
standing army.”
~Edward Everett~
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors
into windows.”
~Sydney J. Harris~
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes
from one generation to another.”
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~
“Education is learning what you didn't even know you
didn't know.”
~Daniel J. Boorstin~
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought
for with ardor and diligence.”
~Abigail Adams~
“Education is what survives when what has been
learned has been forgotten.”
~B. F. Skinner~
“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”
~A. A. Milne~
“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge,
others just gargle.”
~Robert Anthony~
“The object of education is to prepare the young to
educate themselves throughout their lives.”
~Robert M. Hutchins~
“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts,
but of values.”
~William S. Burroughs~
“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”
~Ralph Ellison~
“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
~Will Durant~
“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.”
~Annie Dillard~
“All real education is the architecture of the soul.”
~William Bennett~
“Man is what he reads.”
~Joseph Brodsky~
“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”
~Allan Bloom~
NEWSPAPERS
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated
than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
~Thomas Jefferson~
“I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a
town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.”
~Will Rogers~
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than
a thousand bayonets.”
~Napoleon Bonaparte~
CRICKET MATCH
“What I know most surely about morality and the duty
of man, I owe it to sport.”
~Albert Camus~
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
~Proverb~
“If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's
recreation.”
~Bophop~
“Sport is a preserver of health.”
~Keats~
“Winning means you're willing to go longer,work
harder, and give more than anyone else.”
~Vince Lombardi~
“Pain is only temporary but victory is forever.”
~Jeremy H. ~
“If you can accept losing, you can't win.”
~Vince Lombardi~
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
~Vince Lombardi~
“Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.”
~Charles O. Finley~
“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.”
~Marcus Valerius Martial~
“Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an
India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.”
~Imran Khan~
“I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a
long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.”
~Sachin Tendulkar~
“My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I
cannot think that this game is less or more important.”
~Sachin Tendulkar~
“Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”
~Robin Williams~
“I do love cricket - it's so very English.”
~Sarah Bernhardt~
“Many Continentals think life is a game; the English
think cricket is a game.”
~George Mikes~
“Cricket was my reason for living.”
~Harold Larwood~
“The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how
the peace process goes.”
~Imran Khan~
HEALTH IS WEALTH
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold
and silver.”
~Mahatma Gandhi~
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important
keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and
creative intellectual activity."
~John F. Kennedy~
"The higher your energy levels, the more efficient your
body, the more efficient your body, the better you feel
and the more you will use your talent to produce
outstanding results."
~Anthony Robbins~
MY HOBBY
“An empty mind is a devil’s workshop.”
~Proverb~
“Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby like
stamp collecting.”
~Mason Cooley~
“A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.”
~Phyllis McGinley~
“Beware the hobby that eats.”
~Benjamin Franklin~
“My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and
kids.”
~Joel Osteen~
“Life's a hobby.”
~Joshua Lederberg~
Gardening
“He who plants a garden plants happiness.”
~Anonymous~
MUSLIM UNITY
“In union there is strength.”
~Anonymous~
“United we stand, divided we fall.”
~Anonymous~
“There is no Islam without unity, no unity without
leadership, and no leadership without obedience.”
~Umar ibn al-Khattab~
“The Muslim ummah cannot take another war. Let’s
unite on our common grounds rather than focus on
our differences. Let us focus on what we agree upon
and negotiate matters based upon them. You will find
that most of these differences will begin to melt
away.”
~Shaykh Waleed Bassyouni~
“And hold fast, all together, by the rope which God
(stretches out for you), and be not divided among
yourselves; and remember with gratitude God’s favor
on you.”
~The Holy Quran~
“Obey Allah and His Messenger ()صىل هللا عليه وآله وسلم
and do not quarrel among yourselves lest you lose
heart and your momentum disappear. And be
steadfast. Allah is with the steadfast.”
~The Holy Quran~
MY COLLEGE LIBRARY
“A library is thought in cold storage.”
~Herbert Samuel~
“Everything you need for letter future and success has
already been done. All you have to do is go to the
library.”
~Henri Frederic A~
“A good book is the same today and forever.”
~Anonymous~
“Come and take choice of my entire library. And so
beguile they sorrow.”
~Shakespeare~
“If you have a garden and a library you have
everything you need.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an
education, go to the library.”
~Frank Zappa~
“A library is a delivery room for the birth of ideas a
place where history comes to life.”
~Norman Cousins~
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of
life.”
~Henry Ward Beecher~
A HOUSE ON FIRE
“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
~Anonymous~
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to
call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out
of while the fire burns the house down with us
trapped, locked in it."
~Tennessee Williams~
DRUGS
“Cocaine—such a perfunctory, unintelligent drug.
Ideal for those who seek euphoria and refuse to look
inward.”
~Luisa Valenzuela~
“Drugs are the greatest threat to our national
security.”
~Jesse Jackson~
“The most deadly thing about cocaine is that it
separates you from your soul.”
~Quincy Jones~
“Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to
prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.”
~John Hardwick~
“Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with
drugs.”
~Lily Tomlin~
“Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least
they're the scenic route.”
~Anonymous~
“Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the
window except that the birds might eat them.”
~Martin H. Fischer~
“A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label
says it will do.”
~Eric Hodgins~
“It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to
get one single remedy.”
~Proverb~
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the
destruction.”
~Bob Marley~
IF I WERE A PRINCIPAL
“The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All
the other rules were created to achieve this first one.”
~Jean Racine~
“We talk on principal, but act on motivation.”
~Walter Savage Landor~
“You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a
good principal, you won't have a good school.”
~Eli Broad~
THE INFLUENCE OF MEDIA
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”
~Jim Morrison~
“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and
obedience of the media.”
~Noam Chomsky~
“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They
have the power to make the innocent guilty and to
make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because
they control the minds of the masses.”
~Malcolm X~
“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial
perceptions and arbitrary values.”
~Marshall McLuhan~
“Public opinion can be influential, the media can be
influential.”
~Noam Chomsky~
“Don't hate the media, become the media.”
~Jello Biafra~
“The media. It sounds like a convention of
spiritualists.”
~Tom Stoppard~
“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but
entertainment which is intended to be consumed like
food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”
~W. H. Auden~
“Social media is not about the exploitation of
technology but service to community.”
~Simon Mainwaring~
“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls
the culture.”
~Allen Ginsberg~
BLESSINGS OF NATURE
“Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings”
~William Cullen Bryant~
“I am far more concerned about being in tune with
nature than copying it.”
~Georges Braque~
“Nature admits no lie.”
~Thomas Carlyle~
“Nature abhors a vacuum.”
~Francois Rabelais~
“Nature can do more than physicians.”
~Oliver Cromwell~
“Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of
all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all
music.”
~James Abbott McNeill Whistler~
“Nature has always had more power than education.”
~Voltaire~
“Nature is but a name for an effect
Whose cause is God”
~William Cowper~
DIGNITY OF WORK
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to
work a day in your life.”
~Confucius~
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and
importance and should be undertaken with
painstaking excellence.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.~
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
~Maya Angelou~
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some
turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and
some don't turn up at all.”
~Sam Ewing~
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the
idle man who is the miserable man.”
~Benjamin Franklin~
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the
moment you get up in the morning and does not stop
until you get into the office.”
~Robert Frost~
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.”
~Henry David Thoreau~
“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to
do good work today.”
~Elbert Hubbard~
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
~Thomas A. Edison~
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives
satisfaction.”
~Anne Frank~
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
~Rumi~
“We work to become, not to acquire.”
~Elbert Hubbard~
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
~Samuel Goldwyn~
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
~Pablo Picasso~
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm
clock.”
~Pablo Picasso~
“When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.”
~Henry J. Kaiser~
“The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it
first.”
~Ginger Rogers~
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
~Horace~
“You're blessed if you have the strength to work.”
~Mahalia Jackson~
“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of
youth.”
~Pearl S. Buck~
‘Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his
strength and his pleasure.”
~George Sand~
“Work is much more fun than fun.”
~Noel Coward~
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard
work.”
~Harry Golden~
“Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.”
~Marc Chagall~
INFLATION
“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as
an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”
~Ronald Reagan~
“Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be
imposed without legislation.”
~Milton Friedman~
“By a continuing process of inflation, government can
confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important
part of the wealth of their citizens.”
~John Maynard Keynes~
“Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first
time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at
the same price.”
~Robert Orben~
"Inflation is a disease, a dangerous and sometimes
fatal disease, a disease that if not checked in time can
destroy a society."
~Milton Friedman~
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation
of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a
temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin.
But both are the refuge of political and economic
opportunists."
~Ernest Hemingway~
“There is no stable trade-off between inflation and
unemployment.”
~Milton Friedman~
“It is a way to take people's wealth from them without
having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most
universal tax of all.”
~Thomas Sowell~
“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-
dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you
had hair.”
~Sam Ewing~
“Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.”
~Robert Orben~
“Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it
and every government practices it.”
~Frederick Leith-Ross~
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION
“A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in
a seclusion in comparison with which any physical
seclusion is an exhibition to public view.”
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein~
“Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought,
and not, as many of those who worry most about their
shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or
oratory.”
~Emily Post~
A RAINY DAY
"Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass...It's
about Learning to Dance In The Rain."
~Vivian Greene~
"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away
the hunger."
~Saint Basil~
“If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop,
who are we to say it shouldn't rain?”
~Tom Barrett~
“After the rain cometh the fair weather”
~Anonymous~
“Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor
shepherds prayed in vain.”
~Edmund Waller~
“My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a
rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.”
~Anne Lamott~
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry
rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset
sky.”
~Rabindranath Tagore~
“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it
rain.”
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your
head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a
lullaby.”
~Langston Hughes~
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
~Roger Miller~
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth;
without rain, there would be no life.”
~John Updike~
“If you think it's going to rain, it will.”
~Clint Eastwood~
“I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.”
~Katherine Mansfield~
ENERGY CRISIS
“We are living beyond our means. As a people we
have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of
its priceless and irreplaceable resources without
regard for the future of our children and people all
around the world.”
~Margaret Head~
“We need economically and environmentally
attractive alternative fuels, and those that meet these
criteria will succeed in a free marketplace.”
~Lee.R.Raymond~
“The basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it
is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We
don’t know how to use energy, or what to use it for.
And we cannot restrain ourselves.”
~Wendell Berry~
STREET CRIMES
“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied
by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold
crime in check; yet crime persists.”
~Albert Camus~
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
~Aristotle~
“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s
failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the
community.”
~H.G. Wells~
“From each crime are born bullets
that will one day seek out in you
where the heart lies”
~Pabloneruda~
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
~Winston Churchill~
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BOOK
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master
spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life
beyond life.”
~John Milton~
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written.”
~Oscar Wilde~
“Every burned book enlightens the world.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
~Ernest Hemingway~
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today
and forever.”
~Martin Farquhar Tupper~
“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”
~Wentworth Dillon~
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten ; none are
undeservedly remembered.”
~W.H.Auden~
BAD MANNERS
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for
others guides our manners.”
~Laurence Sterne~
“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but,
when he is made, they greatly improve his
appearance.”
~Henry Ward Beecher~
“The real test of good manners is to be able to put up
with bad manners pleasantly.”
~Kahlil Gibran~
“Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad
manners.”
~Rosalind Wiseman~
“You can get through life with bad manners, but it's
easier with good manners.”
~Lillian Gish~
“Good manners are appreciated as much as bad
manners are abhorred.”
~Bryant H. McGill~
“Good manners sometimes means simply putting up
with other people's bad manners.”
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
“Good manners are appreciated as much as bad
manners are abhorred.”
~Bryant H. McGill~
“Friends and good manners will carry you where
money won't go.”
~Margaret Walker~
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are
good when one may have to back up his acts with his
life.”
~Robert A. Heinlein~
“Savages we call them because their manners differ
from ours.”
~Benjamin Franklin~
“Fine manners need the support of fine manners in
others.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
“The test of good manners is to be patient with the
bad ones.”
~Solomon Ibn Gabirol~
“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but,
when he is made, they greatly improve his
appearance.”
~Henry Ward Beecher~
“Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.”
~Honore de Balzac~
“Good manners will open doors that the best
education cannot.”
~Clarence Thomas~
THE STATUS OF A TEACHER IN OUR
SOCIETY
“Those who educate children well are more to be
honored than they who produce them; for these only
gave them life, those arts of living well.”
~Aristotle~
“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up
learning a ton even when you don't know it.”
~Nicholas Sparks~
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my
teacher for living well.”
~ Alexander the Great~
PAKISTAN AS AN IDEOLOGICAL
“You have your ideology and I have mine.”
~Khalil Gibran~
“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence
but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved,
which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure
and which, we hope other will share with us.”
~Muhammad Ali Jinnah~
“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in
failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.”
~P. J. O'Rourke~
“The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.”
~Hannah Arendt~
“The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.”
~Tom Robbins~
POLITICS
“Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
And politics is the bow of idealism.”
~Bill Moyers~
PATRIOTISM
“I only regret that I have only one life to lose for my
country.”
~Nathan Hale~
“Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish
With my country was my unalterable determination.”
~John Adams~
“Such is the patriot’s boast where’re we roamed; his
first best country is at home.”
~Oliver Goldsmith~
“The World is my country, all mankind are my
brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
~Thomas Paine~
“The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.”
~Thomas Campbell~
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
~Thomas Jefferson~
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
~Oscar Wilde~
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from
which wars are hatched.
~Guy de Maupassant~
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes
first; nationalism, when hate for people other than
your own comes first.”
~Charles de Gaulle~
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country
against his government.”
~Edward Abbey~
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and
your government when it deserves it.”
~Mark Twain~
“If we love our country, we should also love our
countrymen.”
~Ronald Reagan~
“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and
always stronger than internationalism.”
~George Orwell~
“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of
official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough
to call her to a higher plain.”
~George McGovern~
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
~Samuel Johnson~
“It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his
country.”
~Alfred Adler~
“Patriotism must be founded on great principals and
supported by great virtue.”
~Henry Bolingbroke~
“Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the
government when it's wrong.”
~Ron Paul~
“Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.”
~Henry Louis Gates~
DEMOCRACY
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than
the rich, because there are more of them, and the will
of the majority is supreme.”
~Aristotle~
“Democracy... is a charming form of government, full
of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of
equality to equals and unequal alike.”
~Plato~
“The difference between a democracy and a
dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and
take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to
waste your time voting.”
~Charles Bukowski~
EXTREMISM
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
~Barry Goldwater~
“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients:
an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and
a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of
it all.”
~John W. Gardner~
POVERTY
“Poverty pursues the poor.”
~Anonymous~
“Actually we are slaves to the cost of living.”
~Carolina Maria De Jesus~
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God
cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
~Mahatma Gandhi~
“There is always more misery among the lower classes
than there is humanity in the higher.”
~Victor Hugo~
“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty,
and love from woes.”
~Khalil Gibran~
“Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness.
An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.”
~Khalil Gibran~
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows
how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
~James A. Baldwin~
“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together
and if you continue to use the labor of children as the
treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will
have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”
~Grace Abbott~
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by
everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a
much greater poverty than the person who has
nothing to eat.”
~Mother Teresa~
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the
most terrible poverty.”
~Mother Teresa~
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
~Mahatma Gandhi~
“The community which has neither poverty nor riches
will always have the noblest principles.”
~Plato~
“Poverty is the mother of crime.”
~Marcus Aurelius~
“You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.’
~P. J. O'Rourke~
“It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those
who are suffering from poverty or economic or
political injustice.”
~Cat Stevens~
“If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.”
~Ali ibn Abi Talib~
‘Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly
inconvenient.”
~Milton Berle~
“Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.”
~Bertolt Brecht~
“There is something about poverty that smells like
death.”
~Zora Neale Hurston~
“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a
child isn't.”
~Jeff Bridges~
“Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.”
~Bertolt Brecht~
CHILD LABOUR
“Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes
more bitter.”
~Francis Bacon~
“You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate
slavery. Some things are just wrong.”
~Michael Moore~
“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together
and if you continue to use the labor of children as the
treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will
have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”
~Grace Abbott~
“If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as
the elimination of the most abusive forms of child
labor, then we really are not ready to march forward
into the future.”
~Alexis Herman~
OVERPOPULATION
“A crowded society is a restrictive society; an
overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian,
repressive and murderous society.”
~Edward Abbey~
“Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in
the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of
man is not rationalized... we shall have war.”
~Henri Bergson~
"Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human
dignity cannot survive [overpopulation]. Convenience
and decency cannot survive [overpopulation]. As you
put more and more people onto the world, the value
of life not only declines, it disappears."
~Isaac Asimov~
"The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the
growth of its resources and the growth of its
population come into balance. Each man and woman -
and each nation - must make decisions of conscience
and policy in the face of this great problem."
~Lyndon B. Johnson~
"Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary
diseases we do not understand, the modern plague of
overpopulation is soluble by means we have
discovered and with resources we posses. What is
lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but
universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem
and education of the billions who are its victim."
~Martin Luther King Jr.~
“The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as
the most vital to solve if our children and
grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.”
~Alexandra Paul~
“If the world is to save any part of its resources for the
future, it must reduce not only consumption but the
number of consumers.”
~B.F. Skinner~
“When the family is small, whatever little they have
they are able to share. There is peace.”
~Philip Njuguna~
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a
geometrical ratio.”
~Thomas Robert Malthus~
“Population growth is the primary source of
environmental damage.”
~Jacques Cousteau~
“Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing
us, and immigration is part of the problem.”
~David Brower~
“Overpopulation is one of the greatest threats to
human nature.”
~Joe Rogan~
“The point of population stabilization is to reduce or
minimize misery.”
~Kem Haccan~
“Overpopulation of the earth is a danger to the
planet's life-support system and to the people
themselves.”
~Anonymous~
“Environmental degradation, overpopulation,
refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime
movements, and organized crime are worldwide
problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.”
~Warren Christopher~
“You look at the large problems that we face - that
would be overpopulation, water shortages, global
warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs
international cooperation to be solved.”
~Molly Ivins~
“The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as
the most vital to solve if our children and
grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.”
~Alexandra Paul~
SUICIDE ATTACKS
“On our watch, the conversation with a would-be
suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You
have the right to remain silent.'
~Mitt Romney~
“The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to
believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is
simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other
people's lives.”
~Salman Rushdie~
“I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's
no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To
one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to
one he's a hero.”
~Eli Roth~
“The bomber will always get through. The only
defense is in offense, which means that you have to
kill more women and children more quickly than the
enemy if you want to save yourselves.”
~Stanley Baldwin~
“We had periodic crises in this country when the
technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We
had the bomber gap, the missile gap.”
~Aldrich Ames~
ROLE OF MEDIA
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”
~Jim Morrison~
“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and
obedience of the media.”
~Noam Chomsky~
“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They
have the power to make the innocent guilty and to
make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because
they control the minds of the masses.”
~Malcolm X~
“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial
perceptions and arbitrary values.”
~Marshall McLuhan~
“Public opinion can be influential, the media can be
influential.”
~Noam Chomsky~
“Don't hate the media, become the media.”
~Jello Biafra~
“The media. It sounds like a convention of
spiritualists.”
~Tom Stoppard~
“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but
entertainment which is intended to be consumed like
food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”
~W. H. Auden~
“Social media is not about the exploitation of
technology but service to community.”
~Simon Mainwaring~
“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls
the culture.”
~Allen Ginsberg~
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb
and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
~George Washington~
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we
have those three unspeakably precious things:
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the
prudence never to practice either of them.”
~Mark Twain~
“People demand freedom of speech as a
compensation for the freedom of thought which they
seldom use.”
~Soren Kierkegaard~
“I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech,
freedom of expression, freedom of thought.”
~Jimmy Wales~
“Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist
mentality, which exists in all parts of the world,
unfortunately.”
~Lawrence Ferlinghetti~
“Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and
freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom
of thought and freedom of action.”
~Frank Murphy~
“Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend
people.”
~Brad Thor~
“I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we
should also have the right to comment on freedom of
speech.”
~Stockwell Day~
“It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those
with whom we agree.”
~Leo McKern~
“The threat or fear of violence should not become an
excuse or justification for restricting freedom of
speech.”
~Alan Dershowitz~
“I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of
religion go hand-in-hand in America.”
~Kirk Cameron~
“We should silence anyone who opposes the right to
freedom of speech.”
~Boyle Roche~
“I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for
justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.”
~Teresa Heinz~
OUR EXAMINATION SYSTEM
“There is no greater delight than to be conscious of
sincerity on self-examination.”
~Mencius~
“Learn something new every day under the sun. You
will never get old if you do.”
~Lois Bey~
“Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried
by various establishments throughout the world. They
force people to get involved in the kind of examination
that has only one aim and that is to stamp out
dissent.”
~Pete Seeger~
“Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.”
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh~
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to
harvest where you haven’t planted.”
~David Bly~
“The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single
step.”
~Proverb~
“You’re never a loser til you quit trying.”
~Anonymous~
STUDENTS UNION
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in
front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and
be my friend.”
~Albert Camus~
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you
happen to be going down.”
~Arnold H. Glasow~
“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily,
adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends
courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
~William Penn~
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to
explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if
you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you
really haven't learned anything.”
~Muhammad Ali~
“Friends are like stars, you do not see them every time
but you know that they are there”
~Anonymous~
“True friends are like diamonds; precious and rare.
False friends are like leaves; found everywhere.”
~Anonymous~
SCIENCE IS A CURSE
“Science never solves a problem without creating 10
more.”
~George Bernard~
“Our scientific power has out run our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
~Martin Luther King Jr.~
“The scientific imagination always restrains itself
within the limits of probability.”
~Thomas Huxley~
“Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as
an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest
scientific insight is made into a means of mass
destruction.”
~Bertrand Russell~
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no
affections, - a mere heart of stone.”
~Charles Darwin~
PICNIC
“A poor life this if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare”
~W.H.Davies~
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
~Anonymous~
“Though nothing can bring back the hour; of splendor
in the grass, of glory in the flower.”
~William Wordsworth~
“Beauty needs no ornaments.”
~Anonymous~
“Nothing's better than a picnic.”
~Zooey Deschanel~
“I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt
with them.”
~Bess Truman~
DENGUE
“Prevention is better than cure.”
~Proverb~
TRAFFIC SYSTEM
“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous;
you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”
~Margaret Thatcher~
“Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this
theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a
green light.”
~Taylor Swift~
“Traffic was very, very free. It was great.”
~Jim Capaldi~
CORRUPTION
“If a country is to be corruption free and become a
nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are
three key societal members who can make a
difference. They are the father, the mother and the
teacher.”
~Abdul Kalam~
“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
~Kurt Cobain~
“The fight for justice against corruption is never easy.
It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on
our self, our families, our friends, and especially our
children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price
we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.”
~Frank Serpico~
TECHNICAL EDUCATION
“It has become appallingly obvious that our
technology has exceeded our humanity.”
~Albert Einstein~
“The world is very different now. For man holds in his
mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human
poverty, and all forms of human life.”
~John F. Kennedy~
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that
they lose their common sense.”
~Gertrude Stein~
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.”
~Arthur C. Clarke~
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids
working together and motivating them, the teacher is
the most important.”
~Bill Gates~
“Men have become the tools of their tools.”
~Henry David Thoreau~
“Technological progress has merely provided us with
more efficient means for going backwards.”
~Aldous Huxley~
“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial
elements profoundly depend on science and
technology.”
~Carl Sagan~
“For a successful technology, reality must take
precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot
be fooled.”
~Richard P. Feynman~
“What the country needs are a few labor-making
inventions.”
~Arnold H. Glasow~
“Technology has to be invented or adopted.”
~Jared Diamond~
“The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain
but to serve the body.”
~William S. Burroughs~
“I've always felt that technology can be used to our
benefit and should be used to our benefit.”
~Deepak Chopra~
CHRISTMAS
“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find
it under a tree.”
~Roy L. Smith~
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of
mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous
in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
~Calvin Coolidge~
“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we
love, every time we give, it's Christmas.”
~Dale Evans~
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
~Benjamin Franklin~
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and
behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
~Norman Vincent Peale~
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it
all the year.”
~Charles Dickens~
“Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.”
~Edna Ferber~
“Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.”
~Gary Allan~
“Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once
a year.”
~Victor Borge~
"At Christmas play and make good cheer, for
Christmas comes but once a year.”
~Thomas Tusser~
“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
~Alexander Smith~
“Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in
heart as well as body.”
~Garry Moore~
“I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but
because of all the decorations and lights and the
warmth of the season.”
~Ashley Tisdale~
“Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.”
~Katharine McPhee~
“I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.”
~Alison Sweeney~
INTERNTET
“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built
that humanity doesn't understand, the largest
experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”
~Eric Schmidt~
“The Internet is becoming the town square for the
global village of tomorrow.”
~Bill Gates~
“It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no
rules.”
~Steven Wright~
“The new information technology... Internet and e-
mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of
communications.”
~Peter Drucker~
“The internet could be a very positive step towards
education, organisation and participation in a
meaningful society.”
~Noam Chomsky~
“The Internet is the most important single
development in the history of human communication
since the invention of call waiting.”
~Dave Barry~
“The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a
classroom.”
~Jon Stewart~
“The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten
uppity.”
~Clifford Stoll~
“The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological
breakthrough that changed the world.”
~Peter Singer~
“The Internet knows no national borders.”
~Alan Dershowitz~
UNEMPLOYMENT
“We Conservatives hate unemployment.”
~Margaret Thatcher~
“When a great many people are unable to find work,
unemployment results.”
~Calvin Coolidge~
“When more and more people are thrown out of
work, unemployment results.”
~Calvin Coolidge~
“Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and
people starving.”
~Jonathan Davis~
“Any degree of unemployment worries me.”
~Gerhard Schroder~
“What keeps me up at night is poverty and
unemployment.”
~Abdullah II of Jordan~
“For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater
Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or
design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human
situation.”
~Kim Campbell~
AN IDEAL TEACHER
“Those who educate children well are more to be
honored than they who produce them; for these only
gave them life, those arts of living well.”
~Aristotle~
“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up
learning a ton even when you don't know it.”
~Nicholas Sparks~
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my
teacher for living well.”
~ Alexander the Great~
“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A
murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A
teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his
influence stops.”
~Henry Adams~
“The task of the educator of young children lies in
seeing that the child does not confound good with
immobility and evil with activity.”
~Maria Montessori~
“A teacher is the one who, in his youth, admired
teachers.”
~H.L.Mencken~
“A teacher should have maximal authority and
minimal power.”
~Thomas Szasz~
“A teacher affects eternity.”
~Henry Adams~
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in
creative expression and knowledge.”
~Albert Einstein~
“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the
imagination, and instill a love of learning.”
~Brad Henry~
“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the
lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.”
~Elbert Hubbard~
MY FAVOURITE POET
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
~Oscar Wilde~
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a
dash of the dictionary.”
~Khalil Gibran~
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and
the thought has found words.”
~Robert Frost~
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of
wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
~Robert Frost~
IMPORTANCE OF GAMES
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence
wins championships.”
~Michael Jordan~
“Games lubricate the body and the mind.”
~Benjamin Franklin~
“Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or
we subconsciously avoid it.”
~Alan Thicke~
“No human being is innocent, but there is a class of
innocent human actions called Games.”
~W. H. Auden~
“You must invent your own games and teach us old
ones how to play.”
~Nikki Giovanni~
“Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-
linear qualities than TV and film.”
~David Duchovny~
WONDERS OF SCIENCE
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me
right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
~Albert Einstein~
“Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives
man knowledge which is power religion gives man
wisdom which is control.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.~
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a
body of knowledge.”
~Carl Sagan~
“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it
anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”
~Isaac Asimov~
“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion
breeds ignorance.”
~Hippocrates~
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of
enthusiasm and superstition.”
~Adam Smith~
MY BEST FRIEND
“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily,
adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends
courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
~William Penn~
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to
explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if
you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you
really haven't learned anything.”
~Muhammad Ali~
“Friends are like stars, you do not see them every time
but you know that they are there.”
~Anonymous~
“True friends are like diamonds; precious and rare.
False friends are like leaves; found everywhere.”
~Anonymous~
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.”
~Aristotle~
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in
me.”
~Henry Ford~
“Things are never quite as scary when you've got a
best friend.”
~Bill Watterson~
A VISIT TO A MUSEUM
“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”
~Pablo Picasso~
“I went to the museum where they had all the heads
and arms from the statues that are in all the other
museums.”
~Steven Wright~
A HOCKEY MATCH
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is.”
~Wayne Gretzky~
“A great hockey player plays where the puck is going
to be.”
~Wayne Gretzky~
“Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need
each and every guy helping each other and pulling in
the same direction to be successful.”
~Wayne Gretzky~
“Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half
is physical.”
~Wayne Gretzky~
“Every day is a great day for hockey.”
~Mario Lemeiux~
“Hockey is the original extreme sport.”
~Tom Ward~
“Hockey's my favorite sport.”
~Denis Leary~
“Hockey is a tough game.”
~Bobby Orr~
“Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always
should be.”
~Mario Lemeiux~
AN IDEAL CITIZEN
“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case
with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of
every free state.”
~Thomas Jefferson~
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of
ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own
weight.”
~Theodore Roosevelt~
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it
shows he is a citizen of the world.”
~Francis Bacon~
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth,
and I am a citizen of the world.”
~Eugene V. Debs~
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the
world.”
~Diogenes~
“The function of a citizen and a soldier are
inseparable.”
~Benito Mussolini~
“Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the
citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand
by it.”
~Martha Gellhorn~
“I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest
society in all of human history.”
~Marco Rubio~