Hemantha Quotes & Sayings

Don't you see, Lynn? We have to help ... or else we won't have learned a thing. — A.C. Crispin

Daily life is an ongoing adaptation process of imprinting our memory's storage center with useful data and the ceaseless expurgation of undesirable facts, exfoliation of destructive thoughts, and weeding out annoying emotional quirks that seemingly sprout out of thin air. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. — Michael Pollan

Listen, nothing's better than being useful. Tell me how, at the present moment, I can be most of of use. I know it's not for you to decide that, but I'm only asking for your opinion. You tell me, and what you say I swear I'll do! Well, what is the great thought?"
"Well, to turn stones into bread. That's a great thought."
"The greatest? Yes, really, you have suggested quite a new path. Tell me, is it the greatest?"
"It's very great, my dear boy, very great, but it's not the greatest. It's great but secondary, and only great at the present time. Man will be satisfied and forget; he will say: 'I've eaten it and what am I to do now?' The question will remain open for all time. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook. — Laurie Colwin

Prayer is futility when compared to belief. — James Cook

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past. — Klaus Schulze

The great offensives of the future would be psychological, and . . . the most deadly weapon in the world was the power of mass-persuasion . . . In — Nicholas Rankin

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me. — Robert Carlyle