Guru Tugginmypudha Quotes & Sayings

Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one. — Seneca.

He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Sellotape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. — J.K. Rowling

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

But before we cue the brass section to blare "The Stars and Stripes Forever," it might be worth taking another moment of melancholy silence to mourn the thwarted reconciliation with the mother country and what might have been. Anyone who accepts the patriots' premise that all men are created equal must come to terms with the fact that the most obvious threat to equality in eighteenth-century North America was not taxation without representation but slavery. Parliament would abolish slavery in the British Empire in 1833, thirty years before President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. A return to the British fold in 1776 might have freed American slaves three decades sooner, which is what, a generation and a half? Was independence for some of us more valuable than freedom for all of us? As the former slave Frederick Douglass put it in an Independence Day speech in 1852, "This is your Fourth of July, not mine. — Sarah Vowell

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on. — Tracy Letts

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it. — Ray Bradbury

When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you ... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness are threats to the status quo. It is an artist's job to be an 'outlaw. — Laurence Gartel

By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses. — Phil Cooke

And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in. — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed. — Baba Kalyani

Theologically, the creation of chocolate demonstrates both the unity and the diversity of humanity. Wherever you taste it, in every country of the world, it is immediately recognizable. Other things, in every cuisine, are just food, but chocolate is chocolate. — David Augsburger

Go after your dreams confidently.
Go after your aspirations positively.
Go after your goals expectantly. — Matshona Dhliwayo