Devapriya Mecredy Quotes & Sayings

Charity is the daughter of love. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You need to work yourself up into some kind of a state every morning and believe that you are doing something terribly important upon which the future of literature, if not the world, depends. Buddhism tells you that this is just a foolish fantasy. So, I try not to think too much about Buddhism early in the morning. From noon on, I think about it. — Pankaj Mishra

I guess a good man IS hard to find! — Flannery O'Connor

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance. — Alfred North Whitehead

Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been. — Dick Smothers

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. — Nicola Sturgeon

And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. — Madeline Miller

My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words. — Sebastian Faulks

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation. — Kathryn Harrison

Dying is one of those things that can't be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world. — Scott Westerfeld

There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake — Rajneesh

Mirror sighed. I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for one. You have to make them happen. — Michael Buckley

Okay, Troy ... you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you ... cause ... like you say ... she's innocent ... and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time. From right now ... this child got a mother. But you a womanless man. — August Wilson

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible. — Amelia Earhart