Happy Birthday Arnav Quotes & Sayings

I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies. — Rabih Alameddine

The price of a book is peanuts in comparison to the benefit one idea from one book can offer you. $5 can really change your life, and in some cases it really does. Where else could you get that kind of inspiration or information from? Sure, all those blogs are free and readily accessible but it's precisely because they're free and available that their value is small compared to that of a book. — Aaron Shoemaker

When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin. — Sterling W. Sill

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. — Thomas S. Kuhn

[L]ike it or not, the right timing is an inescapable part of human endeavor and thus of politics. . . . But some activists suggest that "timing" is irrelevant in public policy and politics. In their view, it's just another "excuse" by "incrementalists," another example of their traitorous cowardice, another reason why they should be condemned and purged. . . . There is a fundamental ethical and practical difference between compromise and prudently fighting for the most good that can be gained in the face of overwhelming odds. . . . Realizing the constraints and limits of this world should guard us against unrealistic expectations of what politics can or should achieve. And yet, the examples of Wilberforce and Lincoln, among many others, demonstrate that moral purpose can be successfully pursued in politics with prudence. — Clarke D. Forsythe

I found in the past when I did a bit of punditry, I was very conscious of not saying anything negative about people I played against, because players are elephants and they remember when someone says something - I stored things for years and just waited for my opportunity. — Brian O'Driscoll

I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I. — Simon Kuznets

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed. — Paul Karl Feyerabend

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything. — Victor Hugo

Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears. — Alice Hoffman

Grieve nothing in this transitory world — Tahereh Mafi

No dimensions are closed to the ones in service of the Universal Law. — AainaA-Ridtz