Navrashtra Quotes & Sayings

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. — Edward Abbey

Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.' — Randall Munroe

I speak this way because I know how perilous speech can be ... A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk. — Galen Beckett

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. — Benjamin Disraeli

I like to be in control. I like to call the shots. I like to be obeyed unconditionally. And almost all of the girls who make it beyond the first appointment do that, and do it well. — J.A. Huss

Over time I learned that there were a lot of people who would judge you, blame you, and try to make you feel lesser, no matter what you did; that a degree, a good suit, and a career wouldn't always insulate you from scorn. — Rachel Lloyd

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success. — Roderick E. Stevens

While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ... ; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this' ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic. — Bertrand Russell

And yet people went on thinking this way, kind of in the way that someone who has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness will go on getting up and going to work every morning, not so much out of habit as because the knowledge of impending doom makes them wish to assert an identity. — Neal Stephenson

When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention. — Guy Spier

I think, when I was little, I was a little obsessed with anything that provided luck: Buddhas, 4-leaf clovers, heads-up pennies, even - gasp - a rabbit foot - which actually kind of disgusts me now. — Alysia Reiner

In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk. — Steve Martin

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar. — Angel Olsen

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one. — John F. Kennedy