Poetss Quotes & Sayings

It's very important to distinguish between what most people in the West think about knowledge, and what the Indian concept of knowledge is. In the West the knowledge is something that is tangible, is material, it is something that can be transferred easily, can be bought and sold; or as in India real knowledge is something that is a living being - is a Vidya. — Robert Svoboda

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears. — Michael Trucco

My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understanding, I think, that what I do isn't quite down their alley. — Alissa Nutting

The economy is a thoughtless weather system- and nothing more. Some joke on the people, to give them such a thing — Kurt Vonnegut

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television. — Berti Vogts

The Universal Declaration ... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations ... it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world. — Dag Hammarskjold

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines. — Alex Berenson

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number? — Robin Williams

She jerked hastily back to avoid stepping on it, and her shoulder bumped his
he put a hand out to steady her, just as she turned to apologize and then she was somehow in the circle of his arm and he was kissing her. — Cassandra Clare

I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay. — Herb Ritts

To cook your hare you must first catch it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places. — Ezra Koenig

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. — Frank Chodorov