Lord Basava Quotes & Sayings

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery. — Richard P. Feynman

My nature is ... well ... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate. — Vonda Shepard

Men are like hair. You have to whip them into shape and before you know it, they don't ever stray from their rightful place." "Well, if men are anything like my hair, then I am in for a shifter that will pee on the carpet and destroy my shoes like some horrible hair days," she joked. "I've yet to meet one man who isn't a douche. — Milly Taiden

In a brahmin house
where they feed the fire
as a god

when the fire goes wild
and burns the house

they splash on it
the water of the gutter
and the dust of the street,

beat their breasts
and call the crowd.

These men then forget their worship
and scold their fire,
O lord of the meeting rivers! — Basava

Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay. — Basava

More data - such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street - can make you miss the big truck. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

God is perceived by the heart, not by your reason. But what is reason? Your heart simplifying God's guidance to fit your own needs. — Shannon L. Alder

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. — H.L. Mencken

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. — Henry Miller

I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact. — Maajid Nawaz

Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide. — Candy Lightner

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy. — Wendy Shalit

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled,
the slow result of life's decay,
To be once more a little child
for one bright summer day. — Lewis Carroll