Athena Registration Quotes & Sayings

Untouchability is a terrible reality. — Mahatma Gandhi

Only your karma is important. Not your birth. Not your sex. And certainly not the colour of your throat. Our entire society is based on merit. — Amish Tripathi

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If I were forced to compare Tolstoy with Dickens, I should say that Tolstoy's appeal will probably be wider in the long run, because Dickens is scarcely intelligible outside the English-speaking culture; on the other hand, Dickens is able to reach simple people, which Tolstoy is not. Tolstoy's characters can cross a frontier, Dickens's can be portrayed on a cigarette-card. But one is no more obliged to choose between them than between a sausage and a rose. — George Orwell

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy. — Horace

Love is, and I hope it never isn't. — Demetri Martin

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected. — Geraldine Jewsbury

Beauty in life and fiction is a mixture of Fairy Tale and Tragedy. Men see a pretty face and want to claim the image to fit their fantasy. When the fantasy fades away as it always does, the tragedy is that the 'real' woman he did not notice is left standing to face his disillusion and disappointment. — Lori Jones

Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision. — Nerlens Noel