Priyadarshi Pulikonda Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point. — Dorothy Koomson

Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words. — Kate Grenville

Stop overthinking, Tessie, just enjoy the moment." He winks and dips his head so that our foreheads are pressed together intimately along with our bodies. "What . . ." I start but he places a finger over my lips. "Enjoy the moment," he repeats. I do listen to him this time. Cole doesn't move his face even an inch because if he did, then our lips would definitely brush up and the idea terrifies me, almost as much as it strangely seems to exhilarate me. I look into his eyes trying to work out what secrets lie in their sapphire-like depths. The distance between us is becoming almost imaginary and there's a thin line we need to cross before everything changes. — Blair Holden

O music! A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly only; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse, and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to depressed spirits. The melody of a folk song can do that. And first of all harmony! For each harmonious chord of pure-toned notes - those of church bells, for example - fills the spirit with grace and delight, a feeling that is intensified by every additional note; and at times this can enchant the heart and make it tremble with bliss as no other sensual pleasure can. — Hermann Hesse

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition. — Sam Walton

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

But Perdition was a much asylum as prison, and when you were standing in somebody else's delusions, it was both polite and politic to play along. — Ann Aguirre

There's nothing like a clown with a boner to remind you that you're having a nightmare. — Dana Gould

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them. — Maggie Stiefvater

We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis. — Peter Jennings

I am not master of words to tell you, Jack, the value of an exceedingly remote island to a naturalist, an uninhabited fertile volcanic island covered with a luxuriant vegetation, with no vile rats, dogs, cats, goats, swine, introduced by fools to destroy an Eden, an island untouched ... — Patrick O'Brian

I'm out of the room in the next instant, like a man wanting breath, after suffocating through the horror of a burrito eating obese man's fart." - Emily Dolt — Nix Banner

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention. — Peter Drucker

In those days I coerced
Oracular assurance
In my favour out of every sign. — Ted Hughes

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears. — Derek R. Audette