Ayyangar Quotes & Sayings

Still, I know I missed a lot, especially in the beginning, not only because I was an outsider but also because I was constantly overanalyzing things. A buzzing inner monologue would often draw me inward, hindering my ability to remain alert to the heat of life at play right in front of me. It's safer that way. Our ideas allow us to tame social life, to order it according to typologies and theories. As Susan Sontag has warned, this comfort can "deplete the world" and get in the way of seeing. — Matthew Desmond

As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently. — Stephen Covey

We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more important than the democracy it declares. — G.K. Chesterton

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He remembered once hearing his grandmother ... say plaintively: Why daughter, I presume I can go without
BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE. — Edith Wharton

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. — Dave Eggers

Ay! Louder, Vengeance, much louder, and still she will scarcely hear thee. Louder yet, Vengeance, with a little oath or so added, and yet it will hardly bring her. Send other women up and down to seek her, lingering somewhere; and yet, although the messengers have done dread deeds, it is questionable whether of their own wills they will go far enough to find her! — Charles Dickens

I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well. — Geoff Davis