Provochial Quotes & Sayings

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon ... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though. — Luke Bryan

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves. — Marilyn Ferguson

Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent. — Simone Weil

The Grhasta blessed if house a bliss, wife speaks sweetly,
If wealth satisfies desire, sons able, enjoys wife's company;
If servants obedient, has hospitality, Lord worshiped daily,
Delicious food, drink shared, finds joy in devotees' company.
[209] 12.1 Chanakya — Munindra Misra

Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Do you want to die, or do you want to die trying? Give up or give it a shot. — Nick Trout

Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.' — George Vecsey

Dewey could only shake his head in wonder at those who insisted on ideological purity and who wanted to purge the party of moderates and liberals. If the Republican Party were only a party of conservatives, Dewey warned, and truly became the party of reaction that yearned to return the nation to "the miscalled 'good old days' of the nineteenth century . . . you can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country. — Scott Farris

My hate is stronger than the dimensions, stronger than memory, stronger than time. My hate is now the truest part of who I am. — Claudia Gray