Missing Kerala Quotes & Sayings

I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work. — Alan Furst

Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth is becoming warmer-it must be our fault! The mountain is destroying us-we have not propitiated the gods! It rains too much, it rains too little-a comfort to think that these things are somehow connected to our behavior, that if only we lived a little better, a little more frugally, our virtue would be rewarded. But here was nature, sweeping toward him-unknowable, all-conquering, indifferent-and he saw in her fires the futility of human pretensions. — Robert Harris

It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it. — Paula Radcliffe

His thoughtless expression was one of wonder or of pain; with Gansey, they were so often the same thing. — Maggie Stiefvater

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists. — Eric Schlosser

He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided to grit his teeth over) in alphabetical order. — Douglas Adams

Darkness is stronger than light; because light must struggle to exist; but darkness exists even it does nothing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. — Gaston Bachelard