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عشق نے غالب نکما کر دیا، ورنہ ہم بھی آدمی تھے کام کے۔
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones.""You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?
No good deed goes unpunished.
Humor is reason gone mad.
Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred."Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?""Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?""I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.
World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.