Amma Prema Quotes & Sayings

Go back 2,400 years, and you can hear it from the Athenian orator Demosthenes as he chastises his fellow citizens for responding to Macedonian aggression by "forever debating the question and never making any progress" and issuing "empty decrees." "All words, apart from action," Demosthenes warned, "seem vain and idle, especially from Athenian lips: for the greater our reputation for a ready tongue, the greater the distrust it inspires in all men." We've had several years now of watching Obama and his foreign policy team prove this eternal truth as they have feebly and fecklessly responded to crisis after crisis in Ukraine, Syria, and a dozen other venues. — Anonymous

If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you. — Thomas Szasz

The train that circles Internment couldn't carry him far enough. My brother, the peripatetic, the sage, was too restless to stay in one place, but one place is all we're given. The only one who could quell this restlessness was Alice, always Alice, who swears she was born already in love with him. — Lauren DeStefano

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and — Eleanor Catton

Here, she felt, putting the spoon down, was the still space that lies about the heart of things, where one could move or rest ... — Virginia Woolf

The very best things in life are born of difficulty. Whatever comes too easily is easily abandoned. — Amy Harmon

Leonidas's and Dienekes' quips draw the individual out of his private terror and yoke him to the group. — Steven Pressfield

It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all. I think humanity wishes it were the case since it's humanity that writes the various scriptures. — Frederick Lenz

Mad Rogan saw me and smiled. And my mind went right into the gutter. — Ilona Andrews