Preetam Bandla Quotes & Sayings

The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair. — David Boaz

Being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to love. — Jeanette Winterson

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent. — Oscar Wilde

I've always enjoyed drinking wine, ever since I was in college. My appreciation really took off when I began to visit Napa. I was toying with an idea of making wine in Napa, but it's prohibitively expensive, and the competition is fierce. — Kyle MacLachlan

turn to say as much to Tomas when his lips find mine in a gentle kiss. My heartbeat quickens. I can't see his face in the darkness, but I know Tomas is giving me the chance to pull away. But I don't. I lean in and feel Tomas's mouth smile against mine before the kiss deepens. I snake a hand around his neck and hold tight as a thrilling shiver travels through me. Despite our tenuous situation, nothing has ever felt this perfect. — Joelle Charbonneau

Our peace comes from remembering our wholeness and that the end of desire is the beginning of a life filled with Light. — Danielle Boonstra

The way Karma Ura sees it, a government is like a pilot guiding an airplane. In bad weather, it must rely on its instruments to navigate. But what if the instruments are faulty? The plane will certainly veer off course, even though the pilot is manipulating the controls properly. That, he says, is the state of the world today, with its dependence on gross national product as the only real measure of a nation's progress. "Take education," he says. "We are hooked on measuring enrollment, but we don't look at the content. Or consider a nation like Japan. People live a long time, but what is the quality of their life past age sixty?" He has a point. We measure what is easiest to measure, not what really matters to most people's lives - a disparity that Gross National Happiness seeks to correct. — Eric Weiner

If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be. — J. L. Mackie

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation. — Martin Luther King Jr.

There's no such thing as justice in America. It's all a fairy tale. — James Patterson

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution. — Aneurin Bevan

Are you anybody else's missing piece?'
'Not that I know of.'
'Well, maybe you want to be your own piece?'
'I can be someone's and still my own.'
'Well, maybe you don't want to be mine.'
'Maybe I do. — Shel Silverstein

Whether you take a doughnut hole as blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. Sitting — Haruki Murakami

When we started EA in 1982, our goal was to make games as big a media as visual entertainment or movies. That was how big we dreamed at the time. — Bing Gordon