Gauri Shankar Quotes & Sayings

Ardon was greeted by several of the members of the tribe of Dan. They were an unruly, quarrelsome group, and Ardon remembered the prophecy that Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, had given on his deathbed. He had identified the nature of each of his sons, and of Dan he had said, "Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backward." A grim smile touched Ardon's broad lips. "Old Jacob got it right that time. Dan has some good soldiers, but they are not to be trusted. — Gilbert Morris

A. Was I ill? Have I got well?
Who was my doctor? Can you tell?
Oh, my memory is rotten!
B. Only now you're truly well.
Those are well who have forgotten. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is only two types of women in the world:
1. beautiful
2. very beautiful — Gauri Shankar Gupta

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling. — Robert Payne

Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical. — E. O. Wilson

You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward.
"Good," I tell him. "And just so you know ... I'm never giving it back. — Simone Elkeles

You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don't fight battles that don't matter. — Joel Osteen

SOULMATES MAY BE OPPOSITES, BUT THEY HAVE SIMILAR LEVELS OF: SPIRITUALITY, CORE VALUES, MATURITY AND COMPLEMENTARY NEEDS — Linda Alfiori

If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy. — Christian Louboutin

Again, as it was after Udayan's death, there was an acute awareness of time, of the future looming, accelerating. The baby's lifetime, so scant, already outdistancing and outpacing her own. This was the logic of parenthood. — Jhumpa Lahiri

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world. — Maya Lin

We got over feminism, too. At least women did, as soon as they were hired for those high-prestige jobs that only men used to have. It turns out that work sucks. — P. J. O'Rourke

A buyback is itself a special kind of acquisition, made at prices that are typically a bargain compared with those a company must pay for an outside purchase. — Carol Loomis

The real affliction of old age is remorse. — Cesare Pavese

One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was just this way once before, exactly so; for an instant you almost know how it must go on, but then it disappears as you try to lay hold of it like smoke or a dead memory. "We could never remember, Isabelle," I say. "It's like the rain. That has also become one, out of two gasses, oxygen and hydrogen, which no longer remember they were once gasses. Now they are only rain and have no memory of an earlier time. — Erich Maria Remarque