Lakshmanan Venkatesan Quotes & Sayings

You're a mountain
searching for it's echo! Whenever you hurt, you say, Lord God! The answer lives in that
which bends you low and makes you cry out. Pain and the threat of death, for instance, do this.
They make you clear. When they're gone, you lose purpose. You wonder what to do, where
to go. This is because you're uneven in your opening: sometimes closed and unreachable,
sometimes, with your shirt torn with longing. Your discursive intellect dominates for a
time; then the universal, beyond-time intelligence comes. Sell your questioning talents, my
son; buy bewildering surrender. Live simply and helpfully in that. Don't worry about
the University of Bukhara with its prestigious curriculum. — Rumi

Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions. — Sergey Galitsky

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film. — Mads Mikkelsen

Negroes
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
They change their minds!
Wind
In the cotton fields,
Gentle breeze:
Beware the hour
It uproots trees! — Langston Hughes

Ana, there's a package for you. Kate is standing on the steps up to the front door holding a brown paper parcel. Odd. I haven't ordered anything from Amazon recently. — E.L. James

You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding. — Mallory Ortberg

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word. — Gloria Naylor

The telly is invaded
by hallelujah channels
and informercials,
both trying to sell
everything needed
to save you. — Emma Cameron

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries. — Tina Brown

As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak. — John Bunyan