Rachna Ranade Quotes & Sayings

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced. — Leo Tolstoy

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history. — Stephen Kinzer

Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with the old days. It is in the shamed darting eyes of the defeated. It is in the faces of the little boys who regard our triumphant columns with fear and fascination. And above all it is in the thousands of beaten, dusty soldiers who stream along the roads towards the stockades. Their feet clump wearily, mechanically, hopelessly on the still endless road of war. They move as haggard, gray masses, in which the individual had neither life nor meaning. It is impossible to see in these men the quality that made them stand up and fight like demons out of hell a few shorts months ago. — Audie Murphy

As a creator, you can design any sort of jewelry that you like for the inside of other people's minds (or simply for the inside of your own mind). You can make work that's provocative, aggressive, sacred, edgy, traditional, earnest, devastating, entertaining, brutal, fanciful . . . but when all is said and done, it's still just intracranial jewelry-making. It's still just decoration. And that's glorious. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The quiet power of a life transformed by the grace of God is so explosive that it can redirect the course of human events — Richard Foster

I call masturbating "Gregging," named not after a man named Greg, but a guy named Dave. — Jarod Kintz

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one — Harold Lewis

I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve, and yet you live, and are useful, and bring life to others. — Geraldine Brooks