Khadakvasla Quotes & Sayings

But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down. — Margaret Atwood

I should have my own publishing companies. — Solomon Burke

[ ... ] Aglionby boys, who often thought rudeness was a louder sort of flirting. — Maggie Stiefvater

Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Some poems are art because of their passion. — Gerald Stern

Little sleep, no investment portfolio, no family around, no hot water. On an evening a few days after arriving in Cange, I wondered aloud what compensation he got for these various hardships. He told me, "If you're making sacrifices, unless you're automatically following some rule, it stands to reason that you're trying to lessen some psychic discomfort. So, for example, if I took steps to be a doctor for those who don't have medical care, it could be regarded as a sacrifice, but it could also be regarded as a way to deal with ambivalence." He went on, and his voice changed a little. He didn't bristle, but his tone had an edge: "I feel ambivalent about selling my services in a world where some can't buy them. You can feel ambivalent about that, because you should feel ambivalent. Comma." This was for me one of the first of many encounters with Farmer's — Tracy Kidder

I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world's population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old. — Brian Dennehy

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading
in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you can hope to do the other, but you don't do the other simply because you do the one. — Richard Mitchell

I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat. — Lou Gehrig

Christians have the spiritual mandate to establish the Kingdom of God in their own lives and in their society. — Sunday Adelaja

And I served as an officer in the army."
"Very impressive. I've been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror. — Julie Anne Long

You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn't go on to say anything about inheriting the earth. — Margaret Atwood

I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago. — Baba Kalyani