Bishnupriya Dutta Quotes & Sayings

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be. — Joe Biden

What is most admirable about firefighters, is there reliability. When they are called, they come — Dennis Smith

Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die. — Homer

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley

Tolerance is the last virtue of a man without principle. — G.K. Chesterton

Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff ... I really don't get you.
Edward: It's called having integrity. You should try it sometime — Hiromu Arakawa

I hear the police did a biopsy."
"You mean autopsy," I said.
"Whatever. — Suzanne M. Trauth

Listen more; talk less."
An executive once gave me this advice. I think it's a good thing for us all to keep in mind. — Mary Turner Heimstead

I'm yearning for more, despite the odds Lord Jesus. — Euginia Herlihy

Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries. — Terry Pratchett

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion. — Alan Keyes

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. — Henry Miller

As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the identification. When our self-identity expands beyond the ego, into the deeper psychic, then even into the Unborn and One Taste, the ego is simply taken up and subsumed in a grander identity. But the ego itself remains as the functional self in the gross realm, and it might even appropriately be intensified and made more powerful, simply because it is now plugged into the entire Kosmos. — Ken Wilber