Monthly By Sme Quotes & Sayings

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.] — Juvenal

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it. — Elise Broach

The givers and keepers of Gogol's name are far from him now. One dead. Another, a widow, on the verge of a different sort of departure, in order to dwell, as his father does, in a separate world. She will call him, once a week, on the phone. She will learn to send e-mail, she says. Once or twice a week, he will hear "Gogol" over the wires, see it typed on a screen. As for all the people in the house, all the mashis and meshos to whom he is still, and will always be, Gogol - now that his mother is moving away, how often will he see them? Without people in the world to call him Gogol, no matter how long he himself lives, Gogol Ganguli will, once and for all, vanish from the lips of loved ones, and so, cease to exist. Yet the thought of this eventual demise provides no sense of victory, no solace. It provides no solace at all. — Jhumpa Lahiri

A brick could be used like sandpaper, to smooth out a cat's rough tongue. — Jarod Kintz

A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time ... so that's how it all came about — Frances Ruffelle

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted. — Jonathan Swift

Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities. — Malvinder Mohan Singh

Sometimes a mistake isn't a what. It's a who. — Stephanie Perkins

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. — Epictetus

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. — Siri Hustvedt

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated. — Anna Deavere Smith

It's hard luck always having to be a judge. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. — Ellen Glasgow

'My Family Recipe Rocks' is on the Live Well Network, and we go to people's homes and watch them cook. — Joey Fatone