Iirised Quotes & Sayings

The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums. And that rooftop did not have any ceiling, only half a tin sheet. That was our first school. — Shukla Bose

While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him - so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments. — John Updike

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. — Clint Eastwood

Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind. — Orson Scott Card

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing. — Frederick Douglass

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence ... also the damnest fool. — Abraham Lincoln

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona. — Kurt Busch

As you will it, so shall it be. — Dave Ramsey

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude. — Peter Drucker

One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are a mile long, but I promise they are worth the time. — Chip Heath

If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence. — Paloma Faith

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't. — Jimmy Wales

Let the stillness be, High Lord. Do not disturb it. If you are able, listen to its voice - but let it be. — Terry Brooks

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. — Gertrude Stein