Mythology India Talking Myths Quotes & Sayings

The only happy people I know are people I don't know well. This observation is a one-sentence antidote to this obstacle to happiness. If all of us realized that the people with whom we negatively compare our happiness are plagued by pains and demons of which we know little or nothing, we would stop comparing our happiness with others'. Think of those people you know well, and you will realize the truth of Helen Telushkin's comment. Most likely you know how much unhappiness everyone you know well has experienced. And even with regard to these people whom you know well, chances are that you do not know with what inner demons - emotional, psychological, economic, sexual, or related to alcohol or drugs - they have to struggle. — Dennis Prager

I am one with the popular culture. — Lloyd Blankfein

Mythology, like water, has the unique ability to take the form of its container. — Utkarsh Patel

She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky. — Elizabeth Taylor

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. — John Grierson

Everyone is panicked about the transition to mobile. I don't lose any sleep whatsoever. — Jeremy Stoppelman

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself. — Abraham Lincoln

But instead I would comfort them by saying we would never knoew what their young men had been spared. Most of them took me to mean they were spared the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing — Marilynne Robinson

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe

My mom, for most of her life, was a Holocaust denier. And it was terrible for the entire family to have to deal with until, finally, a couple years ago, we had an intervention. And we had a rabbi come into the home, had him walk her through the history of the Jewish people, and then he made her watch "Schindler's List." And after that, my mom did a complete 180. Now she can't believe it only happened once. — Anthony Jeselnik

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events. — James Geary

Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to get close to people that we never get close to. — Franka Potente

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits — Sun Tzu

So he is. So that faint uneasiness lost. That faint hope. To one with so few occasions to feel. So inapt to feel. Asking nothing better in so far as he can ask anything than to feel nothing. Is it desirable? No. Would he gain thereby in companionability? No. Then let him not be named H. Let him be again as he was. The hearer. Unnamable. You. — Samuel Beckett

I think when you know so deep in your heart that you just to listen to your intuition and follow your heart, theres no right or wrong thing to do. — Kim Kardashian