Madhvani Scholarships Quotes & Sayings

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. — Matthew Perry

I suspect if we were as familiar with our bones as with our skin, we'd never bury dead but shrine them in their rooms, arranged as we might like to find them on a visit; and our enemies, if we could steal their bodies from the battle sites, would be museumed as they died, the steel still eloquent in their sides, their metal hats askew, the protective toes of their shoes unworn, and friend and enemy would be so wondrously historical that in a hundred years we'd find the jaws still hung for the same speech and all the parts we spent our life with titled as they always were - rib cage, collar, skull - still repetitious, still defiant, angel light, still worthy of memorial and affection. After all, what does it mean to say that when our cat has bitten through the shell and put confusion in the pulp, the life goes out of them? Alas for us, I want to cry, our bones are secret, showing last, so we must love what perishes: the muscles and the waters and the fats. — William H Gass

Her body was his body. His body was hers. He saw himself through her eyes - older, bigger, beautiful to her in that strange way girls found men beautiful, and knowing things she wanted to know. She envied him his freedom, that he was a man and could do anything he wanted to anyone he wanted, while she had to marry him to escape the prison of her life and the prison of the world's expectations. — Tiffany Reisz

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name. — George R R Martin

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit. — Mario Cuomo

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear. — Robert D. Arnott

You have a losing team, you change the coach. — Mike Coffman

Nancy is superstitious. — Michael Reagan

We stood for a moment, handclasped in the warm sunshine, and I thought, like a lovesick girl: This is heaven. — Philippa Gregory

Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away! — Charlotte Alington Barnard

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self - ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality, the truth which I recognise in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness - that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It's crazy. Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women ... f**king idiot-ass men keep saying that women aren't funny. It makes me crazy. I find it disgusting and offensive every time. — Andy Samberg

There needs to be conviction and action behind rules. — Clayton Christensen

No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes. — Shannon L. Alder

Dreams can change. — Kresley Cole