Narissa Picard Quotes & Sayings

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition. — Jeremy Clarkson

He hoped these students would learn how to be at home in the desert, not how to conquer it; and he hoped that, in the process, they might discover the spiritual value of quietude. — David Quammen

The critical image ... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure. — Judith Butler

Learn weeping, and thou shalt gain laughing. — George Herbert

But Vajpayee was a realist. He had joined the BJP recognising that the party would never come to power during his lifetime. That did not matter so much to him. He had never been after power. Otherwise, he would have accepted Narasimha Rao's offer, made in 1993, to join the Congress. He was happy sitting in the opposition and sticking to his principles. — Vir Sanghvi

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be. — J.G. Holland

Balancing security against the values we hold dear requires commitment. — Kirsten Beyer

The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to be a pretty strong - my on problem with people who say don't talk to him. — Bob Beckel

You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday. — Deepak Chopra

THE rule for travelling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind us. The object of travelling is to see and learn; but such is our impatience of ignorance, or the jealousy of our self-love, that we generally set up a certain preconception beforehand (in self-defence, or as a barrier against the lessons of experience,) and are surprised at or quarrel with all that does not conform to it. Let us think what we please of what we really find, but prejudge
nothing. [Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy] — William Hazlitt

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ... — Margaret Deland

They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement. — Robert A. Caro

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. — Han Suyin

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness. — Josephine Winslow Johnson

War times, he said, and the American officer could take what he liked. They in Caguan were noncombatants — Anonymous