Bikash Bhattacharjee Quotes & Sayings

It is quite normal to see good intentions, when not carried out with moderation, urging men to actions which are truly vicious. — Michel De Montaigne

I do feel my loved ones that have passed on; I feel them looking over my shoulder ... So yeah, that's pretty profound, when you're not expecting it, you didn't particularly believe in it and then it just sort of happens too often to ignore. — Bonnie Raitt

It is not political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination toward evil, in whatever form that is. — Veronica Roth

Because it's there.
-George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He disappeared into a cloud near the summit in 1924, where his body was found in 1999.) — Stephen Bezruchka

I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. — Mitch Hedberg

Due to some incident, real or manufactured, Russians in a Baltic capital begin demonstrating, police use tear gas, and somewhere violence breaks out and Russians are killed. The Russian government demands the right to protect its citizens, the Baltic country rejects the demand. Violence mounts, and the Russians demand that NATO stop the fighting. The Baltic state insists it is an internal matter, claims that Russian intelligence caused the violence, and demands that Russian intelligence stop its intervention. A series of explosions kill a large number of Russians, and Russia occupies the country. For — George Friedman

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods. — Elizabeth Taylor

Science can be
and is
used by good men, but in its present sense it can scarcely be said to create them. Science, of course, in discovery represents the individual, but in the moment of triumph, science creates uniformity through which the mind of the individual once more flees away ... Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of mind alone. — Loren Eiseley

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. — Theodore Sturgeon

Perhaps teachers and parents should add this to their list of admonitions and lessons: "Warning: contents of this society have been known to create feelings of stress and alienation; provoke wars, homicides, and suicides; and pollute the habitat you need for survival. Most of what we tell you, you should question. You can improve it. This is, really, just the best we have been able to do up until now and it could be that improvement will actually overturn much of what we now accept and advocate. Learn about your culture and your place in it, but do not cling too tightly to it. What we're teaching you probably needs to change, and soon. — Ron Davison

The reward for a good habit is the habit itself. — Gretchen Rubin

On the rare occasions when my mother perfumed herself, she was going out, and so I rarely smelled those special scents up close on her body, except during kisses goodbye. — Mary Gaitskill

The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox. — Tony Hawk

Sarcasm is my sacred totem animal. I swear I wouldn't survive without it. — Anonymous

When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord. — Nuno Oliveira