Avinash Mishra Quotes & Sayings

True Happiness doesn't come from Prosperity, Pleasure, and Power, but from PEACE.-RVM — R.v.m.

If you really are superior, you don't go around saying you're superior - unless you're Jewish. — Bonnie McFarlane

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest. — Christopher McDougall

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course. — Donella Meadows

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.' But I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached. I hope that, after reading the following pages, the leaders of the YMCA will start a campaign to induce good young men to do nothing. If so, I shall not have lived in vain. — Bertrand Russell

The talkers are rising above the thinkers. — Barbara Kingsolver

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys. — Samantha Shannon

Go off, I discard you. Let — William Shakespeare

I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver — Phil Harris

God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence. — Marilynne Robinson

I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do. — Ida Lupino

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ... — Jane Porter

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions. — Mahmoud Darwish