Deepankar Das Quotes & Sayings

Make today a gift to your future self. — Anonymous

The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better classes to amuse ourselves by investigating them and uplifting them and at dinners telling how charitable we are. The poor don't like it much. They have no gratitude. They would rather be uplifters themselves. But if they are taken firmly in hand they can be kept reasonably dependent and interesting for years. — Sinclair Lewis

A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring. — Luis Marden

Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit. — Rick Warren

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things. — Hugh Laurie

Lord lead us to the right places. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Neighbours are given to us on the same basis as we are given our families. There is no element of choice involved - none at all. — Alexander McCall Smith

Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Even Heaven would be Hell to some people because they'd be too close to God! — David Berg

It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say. — Rachel Stevens

Childhood is a time for pretending and trying on maturity to see if it fits or hangs baggy, tastes good or bitter, smells nice or fills your lungs with smoke that makes you cough. It's sharing licks on the same sucker with your best friend before you discover germs. It's not knowing how much a house cost, and caring less. It's going to bed in the summer with dirty feet on clean sheets. It's thinking anyone over fifteen is 'ancient'. It's absorbing ideas, knowledge, and people like a giant sponge. Childhood is where 'competition' is a baseball game and 'responsibility' is a paper route. — Erma Bombeck

The fact that she made this beeline for me both warmed my soul and made me want to turn around, walk out the door, and find a cliff to fling myself off of. — Lia Habel

You are Beautiful when you are happy — Oscar Wilde

Convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication. — Jane Austen