Digvijay Singh Quotes & Sayings

Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality ... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits. — Sri Aurobindo

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically. — Jeffrey Bernard

We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria. — Douglas Feith

Be apprised, though, that the Maine Lobster Festival's democratization of lobster comes with all the massed inconvenience and aesthetic compromise of real democracy. See, for example, the aforementioned Main Eating Tent, for which there is a constant Disneyland-grade queue, and which turns out to be a square quarter mile of awning-shaded cafeteria lines and rows of long institutional tables at which friend and stranger alike sit cheek by jowl, cracking and chewing and dribbling. It's hot, and the sagged roof traps the steam and the smells, which latter are strong and only partly food-related. It is also loud, and a good percentage of the total noise is masticatory. — David Foster Wallace

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality. — King Hussein I

The fight against radical Islamic terrorists and ISIS has been called the war of our time. — Wolf Blitzer

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement. — Leland Ryken

Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self. — Elizabeth Harrower

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself. — Bill Gates

I wonder why I haven't seen that before."
"Maybe you just needed someone to help you see the parts that aren't so obvious. — Leslye Walton

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask. — Salman Rushdie

I'd never looked up and enjoyed the stars for being stars; I'd missed out on the beauty. First I was too afraid and then I was too busy. — Bridget Blackwood

That's where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn't matter where I am, whether I think I'm a woman or a fish or something in-between. I've never really left the pond. I still can't breathe. — Seanan McGuire