Happy & Safe Diwali Quotes & Sayings

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits. — Thomas Jefferson

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. — Allen Tate

It is not how much we do, but how much we love. — Thomas Watson

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson

And if we dare to look into those eyes, then we shall feel their suffering in our hearts. More and more people have seen that appeal and felt it in their hearts. All around the world there is an awakening of understanding and compassion, and understanding that reaches out to help the suffering animals in their vanishing homelands. That embraces hungry, sick, and desperate human beings, people who are starving while the fortunate among us have so much more than we need. And if, one by one, we help them, the hurting animals, the desperate humans, then together we shall alleviate so much of the hunger, fear, and pain in the world. Together we can bring change to the world, gradually replacing fear and hatred with compassion and love. Love for all living beings. — Jane Goodall

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction. — Plato

I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body. — Louis Menand

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. — Robin Hobb

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. — Philip Larkin

People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent. — Michel Auder

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing. — Rich Mullins

What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have. — Ferran Adria

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? — Alice Walker

It was more like a form of claustrophobia
a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's. — Jan Struther

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work? — Charles De Lint