Famous Brahmin Quotes & Sayings

It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions. — James Madison

I suppose all our lives must be at the end of a long chain of improbable coincidences, — Bill Bryson

The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain. — George Gordon Byron

Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral. — R. Buckminster Fuller

As a little girl she had liked looking at her palms against the light, the red peeking through her closed fingers. Once she had shown it to her father and he had kissed her fingertips, pretending to eat them. — Paolo Giordano

To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see. — Aldo Leopold

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out. — Dougray Scott

He was naked aside from a cloth tied round his waist. To spare the delicate sensibilities of the ladies present. Watching a man's entrails spilling out is excellent entertainment, but the sight of his cock, well, that would be obscene. A — Joe Abercrombie

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on. — Mary Balogh