Pratiti Mehta Quotes & Sayings

I refused to take no for an answer. — Bessie Coleman

Uh, I have to warn you that I have an eye phobia. My parents had to hold me down to get drops in my eyes when I had pinkeye as a child — Colleen Houck

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature. — Florence Nightingale

Energy doesn't communicate in English, French, Chinese or Swahili, but it does speak clearly — Elaine Seiler

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for. — Bob Inglis

Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it! — Eric Thomas

Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us. — Mariella Frostrup

So he's a bad guy."
"Everyone's bad."
"No," Bob said, "they're not. Most people are okay."
"Yeah?" A smile of disbelief.
"Yeah. They just, I dunno, make a lotta messes and then they make more messes trying to clean those first messes up and after a while that's your life."
She sniffled and chuckled at the same time. "That's it, uh?"
"That's it sometimes. — Dennis Lehane

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke

Security is the chief enemy of mortals. — William Shakespeare

Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon — David Grann

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor. — Craig Brown

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public — Robert Hughes

I am a patriot. That means I owe my loyalty to the armies I swore to lead and the citizens I swore to protect. I am loyal to the crown and what it means. Not to the fool wearing it. — Craig Schaefer