Nirvanas Most Popular Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen makes me detest all her characters, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her purpose to make the reader detest her characters up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? That could be. That would be high art. It would be worthwhile, too. Some day I might examine the other end of her books and see. — Mark Twain

You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past. — Cate Blanchett

He growled and stood up. "There is a knocking without," he said.
"Without what?" said the Fool.
"Without the door, idiot."
The Fool gave him a worried look. "A knocking without a door?" he said suspiciously. "This isn't some kind of Zen, is it? — Terry Pratchett

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody. — Ethel Merman

I am not rich, but I am wealthy and my wealth is my love. — Debasish Mridha

Whenever somebody asks me to define what a hero is, I remember Latane and Darley's experiment, staging epileptic fits in front of one, two, or three observers. A solitary observer will help immediately if he's going to help at all, but the larger the crowd the longer the delay. It's the Bystander Effect: the wider the diffusion of responsibility, the greater the impulse to let someone else go first. The hero goes first. — Marion G. Harmon

Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action — J. Willard Marriott

We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people. — Robert Sirico

I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something ... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. — Jimmy Carter

Sam's house is everything I wanted, but didn't know to want ... I want to wrap myself in this house like a blanket. — Erica Lorraine Scheidt