Gaurishankar Himal Quotes & Sayings

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. — George Soros

In every bend of time there is some surprise, joy and beauty. Mindfulness is the light to discover it. — Amit Ray

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. — Winston S. Churchill

I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos ... I've had nine husbands ... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad. — Jacki Weaver

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him. — Orison Swett Marden

I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view." — Donna Tartt

The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy. — Edmund Phelps

There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years. — James Green Somerville

Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family. — Clive Sinclair

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get. — Sherry Argov

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared. — Peter Biskind