Rajashree Birla Quotes & Sayings

I hate that our brains are wired that way. You don't remember the people that raved about us or just said something nice - I don't know why that's not in us to focus on *that*. But I think it takes a conscious effort to train our minds to change that. — Khloe Kardashian

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse. — Pierre Corneille

Seek the opportunity to act on your ideas and dreams. — W. Arthur Porter

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease. — Richard Serra

I felt like I did the first time I had been thrown from a horse, with the reins yanked from my hands and the ground rushing up at me. Then, as now, there was nothing I could do to prevent the pain that was coming. — Julianne Donaldson

Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
Best friends are formed by time.
Everyone is someone's friend, even when they think they are all alone.
If the friendship is not working, your heart will know. It's when you start being less than perfectly honest and perfectly earnest in your dealings. And it's when the things you do together no longer feel right.
However, sometimes it takes more effort to make it work after all.
Stick around long enough to become someone's best friend. — Vera Nazarian

I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write. — Orhan Pamuk

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein. — Martin Heidegger

I've never finished anything by Dickens. — Jim Crace

You see, Marriage is like a Coffin, and each Kid is another Nail. — Matt Groening

Bored .... nearly to death — Melissa Bank

He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended. — Vito Fossella

Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state. — Patri Friedman