Chandaneswar Quotes & Sayings

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read. — Samuel Johnson

This is the perennial danger which besets semiotics: what with man being preeminently the sign-using creature, and what with man using signs in everything that he does, semiotics runs the risk of being about everything and hence about nothing. — Walker Percy

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. — Edmund Burke

That's why babies cry so much. All of a sudden having a body is a lot to deal with. — Ron Koertge

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. — Denis Waitley

I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit facile where they think: "Let's get the next best-seller and see if we can turn it into a film." — Colin Firth

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people. — Matthew Continetti

If you have supportive family and friends combined with a strong will; there is no limit to what you can achieve. — S.J. Hailey

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high. — Gus Van Sant

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken. — Eckhart Tolle

The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Adam's hands wrapped around her waist, his fingers splayed across her lower back, pulling her against him and eliminating the space between them. His kiss deepened as his tongue moved against hers. — Andrea Johnson Beck

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing. — Sally Field

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point. — Mason Cooley

There are much more important things than a man going to the gym. Of course they have to take care of themselves on a certain level, but it's not essential. I think men do it more to impress other men. — Stephanie Sigman