Janardan Sharma Quotes & Sayings

That's what I thought, too when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? — Harper Lee

We discussed this dire problem with education and illusions of academic contribution, with Ivy League universities becoming in the eyes of the new Asian and U.S. upper class a status luxury good. Harvard is like a Vuitton bag or a Cartier watch. It is a huge drag on the middle-class parents who have been plowing an increased share of their savings into these institutions, transferring their money to administrators, real estate developers, professors, and other agents. In the United States, we have a buildup of student loans that automatically transfer to these rent extractors. In a way it is no different from racketeering: one needs a decent university "name" to get ahead in life; but we know that collectively society doesn't appear to advance with organized education. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Google is your friend — Emily Snow

I'm one of the luckiest people in the world that I was able to do what I fell in love with and be able to make a living doing it. — Scott Weiland

If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear. — Confucius

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. — Ovid

Like one who, on a lonely road,
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And, having once turned round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread. -
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. — Mary Shelley

In her world, men loved women as the fox loves the hare. And women loved men as the tapeworm loves the gut. — Pat Barker Regeneration

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale. — Massimo Vignelli

Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness. — Pope John Paul II

There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced. — Markus Wolf

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. — Samuel Johnson

Beyond drama and chaos, beyond anxiety and fear, lies a zone of endless peace and love. Let's all take a very deep breath, slow down for just a moment and remember this. That alone will open the door ... — Marianne Williamson