Mandhata Avadana Quotes & Sayings

In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction. — Lewis Mumford

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know. — Tony Bennett

Those who hated the crimes of Pinochet closed their eyes when the same crimes were committed by Castro. The posture of many countries was governed by their hostility against the United States, and they excused Castro out of a reflexive anti-Americanism. (The enemy of my enemy is my friend.) These political games still take place today. — Armando Valladares

You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man. — Lawrence Kasdan

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The future is keeping you out of the present time. — Van Morrison

For Love surely lies heartbroken at all the tears cried in its name, the curses flung at its efforts ... there is nothing wrong with love; there is just something wrong with us. — Sinovuyo Nkonki

I am going to be a great actress. — Vivien Leigh

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people. — Phyllis Bottome

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating. — Anna Chlumsky

Even
The bed of love, that in the imagination
Had seemed to be the giver of all peace,
Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting,
And as soon finished. — William Butler Yeats

I never say of an operation that it is without danger. — August Bier

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity. — Abdel Fattah El-Sisi

When I look back upon my early days I am stirred by the thought of the number of people whom I have to thank for what they gave me or for what they were to me. At the same time I am haunted by an oppressive consciousness of the little gratitude I really showed them while I was young. How many of them have said farewell to life without having made clear to them what it meant to me to receive from them so much kindness or so much care! Many a time have I, with a feeling of shame, said quietly to myself over a grave the words which my mouth ought to have spoken to the departed, while he was still in the flesh. — Albert Schweitzer

So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend — Stephen Schwartz