Pokhrel Gotra Quotes & Sayings

You always, I notice, feel the same when you are under heavy fire - not so much afraid of being hit as afraid because you don't know where you will be hit. You are wondering all the while just where the bullet will nip you, and it gives your whole body a most unpleasant sensitiveness. — George Orwell

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words. — Max Heindel

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair. — Ronnie Spector

Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form. I am aware that, in some minds, this tends to be regarded as a delicate subject. Let me declare very simply that I do not share such a sentiment. There is nothing in the least delicate about the slaughter of innocents. We all subscribe to the lofty notions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but, for some reason, become suddenly coy and selective when it comes to defending what is obviously the most elementary of these rights, which is the right to life. One of my all-time favourite lines comes from the black American poet Langston Hughes. It reads, simply, 'There is no lavender word for lynch'. — Wole Soyinka

For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything. — Cassandra Clare

You are nothing but a number of days, and whenever a day passes away, a part of you passes away — Al-Hasan Al-Basri

Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings; every thought is a garden full of wonder. — C.J. Heck

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth. — Mahatma Gandhi

After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive. — David Levithan

Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee - and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela - Raphael's as well. Then she put down the carafe. — Nalini Singh

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision. — Charles Babbage

When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be black enough. They didn't really know where to put me. The music wasn't 'black black' sounding. It wasn't R&B; it wasn't straight up hip-hop, although obviously in that dimension and world. — Neneh Cherry

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. — Robert Gottlieb

Humans are only one of many things, and all these things long to live, and the highest form of living is freedom: a man to be a man, a cloud to be a cloud, bamboo to be bamboo. — Richard Flanagan