Mandava Ramakrishna Quotes & Sayings

Happy man, who is dead to the world, and alive to God! separated from the world, and collected into Christ! Blessed is the man into whose heart such Divine graces are infused, as withdraw it wholly from every tendency to inferior things, and exalt it to the supernal light and glory in the heavens. To obtain which, it is needful to pray daily and instantly to God: seeing it is not possible for a Christian to live without it, — Johann Arndt

The idea of, 'The journey is the destination' is put into action by browsing in an indie record store. Besides, a human being is a much better guide than a 'More Like This' link on the internet. — Patton Oswalt

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away. — John Wooden

I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know. — Victoria Pratt

The only way to ensure that you and those you agree with have the right to speak is to support the right to speak of those you despise or do not like - the people with whom you do not agree. — Pamela Wallin

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company. — Thomm Quackenbush

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis

They often went over the line of his personal space. This was what he'd always wanted, he — Bella Andre

There's always more to every story. — Tiffany Reisz

Women all have the same female pretentions and even the most virtuous among them like to convince themselves that they can tempt a man. — Gabriel Chevallier

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. — Daphne Guinness

Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me? — Philip Yancey

I am not anti-American,' he said. 'I just despise the current American administration. I despair that Bush has made ordinary, decent people all over the world think twice about what was once, and still could be again, a great country, when what happened on September 11th should have made ordinary, decent people all over the world embrace America as never before. I don't like it that neo-conservative politicians bully their so-called allies while playing to the worst, racist instincts of their own bewildered electorate. I don't like it that we live in an era where to be anti-war is to be anti-American, to be pro-Palestine is to be anti-Semitic, to be critical of Blair is somehow to be supportive of Putin and Chirac. All anybody is asking for in this so-called age of terror is some leadership. Yet everywhere you look in public life there is no truth, no courage, no dignity to speak of. — Charles Cumming

Tekla wanted to slap her so much that her hand actually twitched. — Neal Stephenson