Premal Desai Quotes & Sayings

Good is knowing when to stop. — Toni Morrison

Transparency isn't a replacement for integrity and honesty; it's an infrastructural tool that allows for those attributes to occur - but only if the public is willing act upon the information that they receive as a result of transparency in a conscious, deliberate way. — Clay A. Johnson

Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams! — Greg Smith

Time is not a field, to be measured in rods, nor a sea, to be measured in miles; it is a heart beat. — Nikos Kazantzakis

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes. — Jonah Goldberg

As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished resources, but of potentially catastrophic climate change. It comes from an arrogant refusal by a modern consumerist society to accept limits on its desires. Kirk's idea of the "eternal society" evaporates before the insatiable demands of the Everlasting Now. — Rod Dreher

We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible. — Glenn Greenwald

Renunciation is of the mind. — Swami Vivekananda

Most of my childhood was spent clinging to the feathers of a dulled arrow blindly fired across a starless night. — Brian K. Vaughan

Most folks are basically decent. If given the chance they will live and let live. But our world has been hijacked by the fear-driven rapacious. — Mark Landau

I never change, I simply become more myself. — Joyce Carol Oates

Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.
Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself. — Adrian Tan

He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor. — Taylor Hanson

We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection on the human physique are conditioned by the dimensions of culture. — C. Loring Brace