Madrasa Quotes & Sayings

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hell, have I been a hell-raiser! — Dusty Springfield

So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass. — Jhumpa Lahiri

What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things. — Frederick Lenz

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. — Alexandre Dumas

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world. — Delia Smith

My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an actor is really a spiritual profession, since it means to create life on the stage. It means to play a role totally, while at the same time you know deep down inside yourself that you are not the role that you are playing. Working as an actor gave me early a spiritual discipline, which taught me a lot about awareness and meditation. Life is also about learning to play different roles, and learning to change between different roles with the same easiness that you change shirt. — Swami Dhyan Giten

Our societies probably work best if they mimic as closely as possible the small-scale communities of our ancestors. We certainly did not evolve to live in cities with millions of people where we bump into strangers everyone we go, are threatened by them in dark streets, sit next to them in the bus, and give them the finger in traffic jams. — Frans De Waal