Handsel Monday Quotes & Sayings

When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of the soul ... it produces its reaction, and that again, will make other souls dance. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents. — Pliny The Elder

Your circumstances don't dictate your future ... Your circumstances don't limit you. — Richard Sherman

I grew up in Delhi, where there are no Parsis. But once I came to Mumbai, I realised how quirky Parsis are. — Cyrus Broacha

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly? — Walker Percy

The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again.
River: What face?
The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face.
River: This is my normal face.
The Doctor: Yes it is.
River: Oh, shut up.
The Doctor: Not a chance. — Steven Moffat

You don't have to be human to be a person. I mean you don't have to be human to be somebody. I don't know you that well, but you seem like way more of a somebody than lots of humans I know! Really. — Sarah Porter

She has no idea how careless I've already been, or that I know that heart of his maybe even better than he does. — Jessi Kirby

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened. — Jason Ritter

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. — Sarah Fielding

I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary. — Sophie Okonedo

ARPA's mandate - to support smart people in a variety of areas - was carried out based on the unwavering presumption that researchers would try to do the right thing and, in ARPA's view, overmanaging them was counterproductive. — Ed Catmull

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. — Alfred Romer

We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves. — Francis Chan