Dhirendra Quotes & Sayings

This vocation of yours.
She knew that a hunger dwelled in her, in that place where happier emotions should reside, a hunger she could neither sate nor deny. While her compulsion to scratch that itch never faded, she knew that she performed a service to the world in these coll west London rooms. While it was work for which she would receive not a single word of thanks, its value, Etienne believed, could not be denied. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us. — Joan D. Chittister

Without imagination, we merely see or hear, and even if we see or hear that the objects of the senses are beautiful, we cannot feel that they are so. The difference is this: in feeling the beauty of objects, we enjoy not only the common, shared pleasures of the senses, but also the private pleasures of the imagination, peculiar to ourselves, and such that we have to struggle to articulate them. — Mary Warnock

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, — Kahlil Gibran

If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1. — John McEnroe

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. — Plutarch

Mary Lou: Are you a seeker? A seeker after truth?

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Newt: I'm more of a chaser, really. — J.K. Rowling

I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, I should have used fewer semicolons — Lynne Truss

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. — Walker Evans

In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur ... us to achieve great things. — Jerry Spinelli

He knew he should be focusing on her, on comforting her, but he was drowning in her instead. — Airicka Phoenix

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives. — William Wilberforce