Falsilla De Smith Quotes & Sayings

The more specific your questions the better. If you feel that you can't really continue the conversation without asking questions, you need to ask specific questions. — Patrick King

She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions. — Debasish Mridha

Given a choice between patterns of subsistence that are relatively unfavorable to the cultivator but which yield a greater return in manpower or grain to the state and those patterns that benefit the cultivator but deprive the state, the ruler will choose the former every time. The ruler, then, maximizes the state-accessible product, if necessary, at the expense of the overall wealth of the realm and its subjects. — James C. Scott

It does not matter much what happens. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

He knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves. — David Halberstam