Poompavai Quotes & Sayings

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated. — Kenneth Burke

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money. — Margaret Thatcher

The eye: the window to the soul; the center of the face's beauty; the point where a person's identity is concentrated; but at the same time an optical instrument that requires constant washing, wetting, maintenance by a special liquid dosed with salt. So the gaze, the greatest marvel man possesses, is regularly interrupted by a mechanical washing action. — Milan Kundera

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest. — Noam Chomsky

The Academy is paranoid about its image. — Roger Ebert

It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world. — George Edward Woodberry

My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time. — Sean Bean

Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money? — Newt Gingrich

If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2. — Barack Obama

Umar, despite his strong character and impressive personality, had lost control of himself for a short while, his emotions seizing him so strongly that it brought out a heretofore unsuspected fragility, causing him to react like a child refusing the ruling of God, of reality, of life. By contrast, Abu Bakr, who was normally so sensitive, who wept so abundantly and so intensely when he read the Quran, had received the news of the Prophet's death with deep sorrow but also with extraordinary calm and unsuspected inner strength. At that particular moment, the two men's roles were inverted, thus showing that through his departure the Prophet offered us a final teaching: in the bright depths of spirituality, sensitivity can produce a degree of strength of being that nothing can disturb. Conversely, the strongest personality, if it forgets itself for a moment, can become vulnerable and fragile. The — Tariq Ramadan

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace — Eckhart Tolle

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. — Ray Bradbury

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless — Mark Carney

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. — Marty Meehan