‘He fell, sir. From the terrace. About one hour ago. They say it’s a suicide.’
‘I thought it would be a push down the stairs, or a beating at night. That’s all.’
‘I forgot we were dealing with good people, Shanmugham,’
from ‘Last man in the tower’ by Arvind Adiga
There are known knowns; there are things we know. We also know there are known unknowns: that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
Donald H Rumsfeld
That woman … deserves her revenge…. and we deserve to die.
There’s no upper limit to number of times I can see this movie. Just. Love. It.
Sar zameen-e-hindustan, as salaam alaikum!
Mera naam Baadshah Khan hai.
Ishq mera mazhab, mohabbat mera iman hai.Mohabbat,
jiske liye Shiri aur Laila ke naam phulon ki khushbhu ban gaye,
jiske liye Farahad ne pahadon ka sina cheer kar dhood ki neher baha di,
jiske liye Majanu ne sehraw ki khaakh chhaani aur aaj bhi zinda hai taarikh ban kar,Ussi mohabbat ke liye Kabul ka ye pathan Hindustan ki sar zameen se mohabbat ki khair mangne aaya hai.
Aazmayish kadi hai,
imtihan mushkil hai,
lekin haunsla buland hai.Jeet hamesha mohabbat ki hui hai,
Sadiyon se yahi hota aayah hai, yahi hoga.Roshani gar Khuda ko ho manzoor, aandhiyon mein chirag jalte hain… Khuda gawah hai!
Khuda ke waaste parda na kaabe se uthaa zaalim
Kaheen aisa na ho yahan bhi wahi kaafir sanam nikle
Mirza Ghalib
‘…I can’t keep apologizing for something I can’t change.’
– Hank in Californication S04E03
So true and so little understood. Accept apology, define punishment. Don’t accept apology, breakup. Either way, move on. Can’t just keep hankering back to an act in the past that can’t be changed.
…All I can do is keep moving forward and try to become someone you can love again.
‘Oh, come on, at your age the glass is half full.’
‘No, it’s at your stage that the glass is half full. At my age we don’t want half a glass, full or empty. In fact we don’t want a glass, end of. We want a tankard and we want it overflowing. We are the have-everything generation, remember.’
‘No, we’re the have-everything generation.’
‘Well we’re the pissed generation then.’
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
‘I suspect you’re thinking of Pascal,’ Finkler said, finally. ‘Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn’t exist, you’ve nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist…’
‘You’re in the shit.’
‘I wish I’d said that.’
‘You will, Finkler.’
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
‘Come over, I’ll order in Chinese’
‘You speak Chinese now?’
‘Funny Guy, Libor. Be here at eight.’
‘You sure you’re up for it?’
‘I’m a philosopher, I’m not sure about anything. But come….’
—The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Just when you think you’ve overcome the grief, you realise you are left with the loneliness.
Libor Sevcik in The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson