Jaspal Home Quotes & Sayings

The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it. — Marcel Duchamp

I suppose you've got to look like you're made of steel for nudity. You've got to get some arms on you. — Joe Dempsie

You need a story to displace a story. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If people think about options in terms of their features rather than as a whole, different options may rank as second best (or even best) with respect to each individual feature. — Barry Schwartz

You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question and trust me I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better. — Emma Watson

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion. — Emile Coue

REMIND ME AGAIN, he said, HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE. — Terry Pratchett

I was inbred into the game by my father — David Pleat

I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed. — Val McDermid

If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and the sons of God, let us believe that we shall reach the realm where Christ Himself now is; for He is the head of the whole body (cf. Col. 1:18), and endued with our humanity has gone to the Father as forerunner on our behalf. God will stand 'in the midst of the congregation of gods' (Ps. 82:1 LXX) - that is, of those who are saved - distributing the rewards of that realm's blessedness to those found worthy to receive them, not separated from them by any space. — Maximus The Confessor

Blame is one of the gravest problems we face, spiritually and emotionally. It keeps us more concerned about being "good" than about being honest. — Henry Cloud

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do. — Tony Blair

Once, she closed the book abruptly and said with annoyance, "That's enough." "Why?" "Because I've had it, it's always the same story: inside something small there's something even smaller that wants to leap out, and outside something large there's always someting larger that wants to keep it a prisoner. — Elena Ferrante

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things. — Brittany Snow

Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy ... While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations ... do not waste ... time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful. — Sam Harris