Nagondanahalli Quotes & Sayings

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season. — Oscar Wilde

The more Marines I have around, the better I like it. — Wesley Clark

I've always had this idea that if you're going to try something, if you're going to expend that first big block of effort and energy to participate - whether it's riding the Tour de France or applying for a new job or coaching your daughter's soccer team - you might as well go ahead and give whatever else it takes to win, I mean, I'm going to be there no matter what, right? Why not go ahead and get the victory? — Johan Bruyneel

I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite. — Jenny Eclair

Men and women alike possess the qualities which make a guardian; they differ only in their comparative strength or weakness. Obviously. And those women who have such qualities are to be selected as the companions and colleagues of men who have similar qualities and whom they resemble in capacity and in character? Very true. And ought not the same natures to have the same pursuits? They ought. Then, as we were saying before, there is nothing unnatural in assigning music and gymnastic to the wives of the guardians - to that point we come round again. Certainly not. The law which we then enacted was agreeable to nature, and therefore not an impossibility or mere aspiration; and the contrary practice, which prevails at present, is in reality a violation of nature. That appears to be true. We — Plato

I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going. — John Derbyshire

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. — Jose Marti

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on. — Drew Barrymore

This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. — Emily Bronte

I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me. — Nicolas Roeg

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state. — Pete Laney

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that. — Kate Millett

Adversity is the midwife of genius — Napoleon Bonaparte

Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives. — H.G.Wells

I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history. — Chris Hadfield