Mayekar Caste Quotes & Sayings

Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren. 'Are you nuts?' I ask her. She replies, 'I don't know any other songs. — Svetlana Alexievich

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin. — Honore De Balzac

If you are in 'motion' than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are 'emotional' than you are in an agitated state. — Dada Bhagwan

childish and irrational, triggered by all of my resentments toward Daniel, — Julie Holland

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family. — Brett Morgen

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. — Hu Shih

I never drink water ... fish f**k in it. — W.C. Fields

Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I went inside my heart
to see how it was.
Something there makes me hear
the whole world weeping. — Rumi

The past, the future: - two eternities! — Thomas Moore

It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things. — Jeremy Denk

Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I was inclined to be bored by ethical casuistry; since I believed conduct to be a matter of taste and breeding, with virtue, delicacy, and truthfulness as symbols of gentility. Of my word and honour I was inordinately proud, and would permit no reflections to be cast upon them. I thought ethics too obvious and commonplace to be scientifically discussed, and considered philosophy solely in its relation to truth and beauty. I was, and still am, pagan to the core. — H.P. Lovecraft

The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child — Henry Handel Richardson