Akilanews Quotes & Sayings

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about? — Harry Browne

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows. — R. H. Tawney

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture. — William Shakespeare

But I had my wand hidden up my sleeve," he assured Padma Patil, ... [Ron revising the story in the 2nd task, of how he escaped the merpeople] ... "I could've taken those mer-idiots any time I wanted."
"What were you going to do, snore at them?" said Hermoine waspishly.
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Ron's ears went red, and thereafter, he reverted to the bewitched sleep version of events. — J.K. Rowling

In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness. — Sri Aurobindo

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them. — Shaun White

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing ... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. — Rene Magritte

The sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child. — James Crumley

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love. — Mahatma Gandhi

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. — Katharine Hepburn

Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul ... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish. — Rumi