Adhir Ranjan Quotes & Sayings

In Memory of M. B.

Here is my gift, not roses on your grave,
not sticks of burning incense.
You lived aloof, maintaining to the end
your magnificent disdain.
You drank wine, and told the wittiest jokes,
and suffocated inside stifling walls.
Alone you let the terrible stranger in,
and stayed with her alone.
Now you're gone, and nobody says a word
about your troubled and exalted life.
Only my voice, like a flute, will mourn
at your dumb funeral feast.
Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I,
I, sick with grief for the buried past,
I, smoldering on a slow fire,
having lost everything and forgotten all,
would be fated to commemorate a man
so full of strength and will and bright inventions,
who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me,
hiding the tremor of his mortal pain. — Anna Akhmatova

What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict. — Dada Bhagwan

The mind's only perfect vassal. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I'm a rather decisive type. — P. J. O'Rourke

Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely. When — Jeff VanderMeer

There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them ... or both! — Buck Henry

Specifically, being impressed with God means that you are: Not limited by human obstacles Not limited by conventional thinking Taking risks to share Christ Changing the scene and not becoming like the scene Being impressed with God and not the scene means looking to Him for what's possible. This is incredibly freeing, because the Bible says that with God, nothing is impossible. Do you really believe that? — David Pierce

Keep your head high and your skirt down. — Marie Rudisill

You either believe in Europe at any price: in other words we have to be in Europe at any price because you can't survive without it, or you don't. If you don't it tends to suggest there is a price which you are not willing to pay. — Liam Fox

London has a centrifugal pull on talent, investment and business from the rest of Europe and the world. That brings benefits to the broader U.K. economy. — Nicola Sturgeon

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. — Elizabeth Bowen

I'm a raging fucking animal around you." I — Pam Godwin