Manitaria Quotes & Sayings

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi

I've always found wildlife very calming
except when animals are eating each other, of course. — Tom Upton

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go. — Neel Mukherjee

It was because I would ask myself, What is the point? I would stay away for a while. But I always came back. — Jane Lotter

Evil and Good are things in their own essebce and not made good or evil by the giver. but if he gives you good so cal him; if evil springs from him, do not name it mine till ye know better its true fount
-Lucifer — George Gordon Byron

The speakers use all accents of sincerity and sweetness, and they continuously praise virtue; but they never speak as if power would be theirs tomorrow and they would use it for virtuous action. And their audiences also do not seem to regard themselves as predestined to rule; they clap as if in defiance, and laugh at their enemies behind their hands, with the shrill laughter of children. They want to be right, not to do right. They feel no obligation to be part of the main tide of life, and if that meant any degree of pollution they would prefer to divert themselves from it and form a standing pool of purity. In fact, they want to receive the Eucharist, be beaten by the Turks, and then go to heaven. — Christopher Hitchens

A young man needs to know where he stands in the world, not just as a matter of basic human dignity but as determinants in the ways and means of survival, and what you might hope to gain by application of honest effort - — Ben Fountain

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do. — Geoff Mulgan

Now here I am, living in the land of tall pine trees and red dirt hills — Nancy B. Brewer

Making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors. — Margaret Atwood

I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels. — Cormac McCarthy

A work in progress. And the possibilities are endless. — Elizabeth Eulberg