Mestanzade Quotes & Sayings

From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption. — Arundhati Roy

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga. — Kripalvanandji

To leave the atom constituted as it was but to interfere with the probability of its undetermined behaviour, does not seem quite so drastic an interference with natural law as other modes of mental interference that have been suggested. (Perhaps that is only because we do not understand enough about these probabilities to realize the heinousness of our suggestion.) Unless it belies its name, probability can be modified in ways which ordinary physical entities would not admit of. There can be no unique probability attached to any event or behaviour; we can only speak of 'probability in the light of certain given information,' and the probability alters according to the extent of the information. It is, I think, one of the most unsatisfactory features of the new quantum theory in its present stage that it scarcely seems to recognize this fact, and leaves us to guess at the basis of information to which its probability theorems are supposed to refer. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. — John Updike

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything. — Eli Roth

Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too, in the formal aspects of the poem. The emotions are there in the way the senses gather things into the poem. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

Tommy's three years old today, that means you raised him for three years. You. And you did an amazing job because look at him," she says, pointing to the pictures. "Look how beautiful he is. How happy he is. You did that, Josh. You gave him a life worth smiling about." She pauses a beat. "We're not just here to celebrate Tommy's birthday. We're all here to celebrate you. — Jay McLean

didn't hesitate. They rode down — Karen Kingsbury

Unless you Believe in yourself, everybody see you as an ordinary stone, not Diamond. — Mohith Agadi

I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought! — Stephen Richards

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am. — Alicia Keys

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life. — Ivan Turgenev

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion. — Max Beerbohm

Never get caught acting. — Lillian Gish

I want to show that I can pitch well and get along with the guys in the locker room.' — Justin Verlander