L'amico Ritrovato Quotes & Sayings

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. — David Lloyd

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit? — Narendra Modi

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning. — Jim Corbett

Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends. — Tahir Shah

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions. — Idries Shah

Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth - and in our minds, where it all begins and ends. That so much change has been made in four or five decades is amazing; that everything is not permanantly, definitively, irrevocably changed is not a sign of failure. A woman goes walking down a thousand-mile road. Twenty minutes after she steps forth, they proclaim that she still has nine hundred ninety-nine miles to go and will never get anywhere. — Rebecca Solnit

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries. — Maggie Stiefvater

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue. — Bertrand Russell

[Professor Kinnerton] Has the fact that we have about 97 percent of our DNA in common with chimpanzees escaped you? How can you still argue we are special and have a soul when we are so obviously animals? ... [Al Gleeson] With due respect sir, the 97 percent is precisely the problem. Are chimpanzees 97 percent of the way to splitting the atom? Are they 97 percent of the way to writing their first sonnet? Someone tittered at the back of the room. Are bonobos 97 percent of the way to putting the first bonobo on the moon? Is there an orangutan somewhere with a simian Mona Lisa 97 percent finished? — Peter Kazmaier

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. — Richard Harris

His lips brushed my ear. "In case you were wondering, this dress is better than the towel. But just so you know, I liked the towel too. — Belinda Williams

Dreams. They were such precious commodities, and she'd given so many of hers away without a fight. Never again. — Kristin Hannah

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless. — Madam C. J. Walker