Aanandam Quotes & Sayings

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking. — John Burdett

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master. — George Washington

My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted. — Chris Rock

Fallon, I don't care about the book. I don't even want to finish it. All I care about is you. Being with you every day. Seeing you every day. I'm not finished falling in love with you yet. But if you don't want to finish falling in love with me, then you need to tell me right now. — Colleen Hoover

Ed? Are you alive?'
'Yes..and that's genuinely surprising
since your bike went over me about
halfway down. You're a very dangerous
girl to date.'
'We're not on a date. — Cath Crowley

It was possible to leave things behind - places, people, memories - at least for a time. But places held tight to the things that had happened in them, and to come again to a place you had once lived was to be brought face-to-face with what you had done there and who you had been. — Diana Gabaldon

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.
Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore.
The two are rarely compatible. — Neil Gaiman

Prayers are instantly noticed in heaven. The moment Saul began to pray, the Lord heard him. Here is comfort for the distressed but praying soul. When our hearts are broken and we bow in prayer, we are often only able to employ the language of sighs and tears; still our groaning has made all the harps of heaven thrill with music. That tear has been caught by God and treasured in the receptacle of heaven. "Put my tears in your bottle"1 implies that they are caught as they flow. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Think honestly.
Think humbly.
Think honorably.
Think happily. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things. — Anthony Bourdain

The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect. — Thomas Holcomb

You'll only fall if you doubt your balance. — Willa Okati

People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence. — Emily Lazar

[W]hat a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions. — Erich Fromm

Meditate on the Word in the Word. — John Owen