Gokhale Institute Quotes & Sayings

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone - to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings! — George Orwell

The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda". — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers. — Sloane Crosley

I see you looking at my cookies,' my father said to Morelli. 'Don't even think about it. Go get your own cookies. — Janet Evanovich

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. — Nick Hornby

By Gaia's left breast, Hades, you really are a moron, — Mercedes Lackey

This is not the place for me. I really think that I don't belong here. But I don't know where I want to go, and I don't have legs that can carry me somewhere. — Makoto Shinkai

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican. — Will Durst

The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.' — Kathryn Stripling Byer

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions. — Sharon Begley

What a strange, amazing life. — Blake Crouch

Not so long ago, I spent a period in New York City, that teeming island of gneiss and concrete and glass, inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Though it wasn't by any means a comfortable experience, I began to wonder if Woolf wasn't right, if there wasn't more to the experience than meets the eye -- if, in fact, it didn't drive one to consider some of the larger questions of what it is to be alive. — Olivia Laing

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school. — James Snyder

Our role is to dream and inspire rather than collude in impacting the reality. — Dries Van Noten

Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies. — George Herbert