Brian Flanagan Cocktail Quotes & Sayings

From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque. With this sadness it was different. I felt that I needed to nurture and protect it from people's understanding. I wanted Susy's sympathy because I wanted comfort and to feel less alone, and yet I also didn't want it - I didn't want my personal grief to be part of something universal right then. — Olivia Sudjic

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge. — Edward Levi

Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift. — Radhanath Swami

Look at what is happening in China and in Russia. They have units that are specifically targeted cyber warfare. They are carrying it out. Our critical infrastructure is attacked thousands of times a day. — Marsha Blackburn

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power ... I don't think we speak the truth to power for power's ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it. — Irvine Welsh

Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people. — Jan Murray

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else. — John Cleese

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions. — Benjamin Graham

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. — Jean Kerr

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed. — Henri Poincare

If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Astronomy is as soil'd at the hands of the Pelhamites as ev'ry other Business in this Kingdom, - and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery, as much as any Nincompoop at Court. — Thomas Pynchon

Be more gay, I beseech you! — George Orwell