Diwali Illuminate Quotes & Sayings

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.' — Richard Dawkins

I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level. — DJ Spooky

The Greeks ... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative. — Henry Grady Weaver

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. — Jean Kerr

My sound is Solange. It's definitely not Destiny's Child. — Solange Knowles

Behind her smile I could see o many other things, a catastrophic sadness. I had assisted to the selfless guardians of the unfortunate children who suffered infinite loss, their family, their homes, and nature as they had known and trusted. — Patti Smith

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action. — Harold Ramis

All around him the chanting swelled, Harm no one, harm no one. What the hell did that mean? He was going to have to shoot the poor son of a bitch, but maybe that was a far better way to go than what the house of horrors had planned. This was a hell of a way for men to die, even if they deserved it. — Christine Feehan

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior. — Norman Vincent Peale

The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the way blood flowed through Margo Crane's heart. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

I steeled myself for this interaction. Fact: I knew I could talk to people. Fact: Children were little people. Little, scary people. I took solace in the fact that if this demonstration went horribly wrong, I could probably outrun them. — Conor Grennan

I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I mean, when your hair starts to thin, it must feel as if your life is being worn away ... as if you've taken a giant step in the direction of death, the last Big Consumption. — Haruki Murakami

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands. — Pierre Loti

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. — John Arbuthnot

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did. — Marshall B. Rosenberg