Muralee Menon Quotes & Sayings

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox

Poets write beautiful words to describe
savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays. — Toba Beta

I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor. — Adam Schlesinger

You must be a servant if you want to be great in life — Sunday Adelaja

Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight. — Ovid

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank. — Jasper Carrott

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible. — Mike Rounds

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it. — William Penn

Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect and the incredibly lucrative ancillary revenue streams, both sides know we are on the verge of ushering in the most lucrative payday in the history of professional sports. The history of professional football is that nothing happens until the very last moment. — Leigh Steinberg

The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought,
Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught
In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront
Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt. — D.H. Lawrence

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor. — Kevin Spacey

Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls who want everything to be prettified, even the horrible. In the name of philanthropy, imbecile criminologists reduce the punishment, and inept moralists the crime, and what is more they reduce the crime only in order to reduce the punishment. Yet the crimes of extreme civilization are undoubtedly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism, by virtue of their refinement, of the corruption they imply and of their superior degree of intellectualism. ("A Woman's Vengeance") — Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies ... — Louis Pasteur

Read all kinds of stories to your child. Don't be afraid if they don't all have happy endings. Being exposed to peaks and valleys of life encourages empathy, resilience, and feelings of meaningfulness and gratitude for our own lives. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras. — Frederick Lenz