Pravitin Quotes & Sayings

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. — Edmund Hillary

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. — Don DeLillo

I don't really care if you think I'm strange
I ain't gonna change! — Joan Jett

Some things came to you late, but late was better than never. — Jeff VanderMeer

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it. — Lucy Diamond

Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers. — J.L. Austin

Mickey Mouse should be in the public domain by now. What a better world it would be if other people were doing things with Mickey Mouse! — Lloyd Kaufman

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her. — Jim Dale

There came a time, however, when death ceased to be the enforcer of finitude and began to look, instead, like the last opportunity for radical transformation, the only plausible portal to the infinite.
But to be seen as the finite carcass in a sea of blood and bone chips and gray matter
to inflict that version of himself on other people
was a violation of privacy so profound it seemed it would outlive him.
He was also afraid that it might hurt.
And there was a very important question that he still wanted answered. His children were coming, Gary and Denise and maybe even Chip, his intellectual son. It was possible that Chip, if he came, could answer the very important question.
And the question was:
The question was: — Jonathan Franzen

I have reached here by selling tea. — Narendra Modi

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it." — Winston Churchill

...The conversation had become unreal since Christianity had entered it. Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem, but he objected when it attempted to influence his life. — E. M. Forster

The process is important, regardless of the outcome, just ask Schacter.
( ... )mental health ... is not a destination but a process. It's about how you drive, not where you're going. The therapist is like a driving instuctor, not a chauffeur. — Noam Shpancer