Rammal Group Quotes & Sayings

In Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan, the bloody violence sweeping India after partition has not yet touched Mano Majra, a small village of Muslims and Sikhs on the India-Pakistan border. But in the summer of 1947, the murder of a Hindu moneylender and the arrival of a trainful of dead Sikhs set off a tragic chain of events. — Nancy Pearl

The heart is far more than just another stolidly stupid pump - it is a responsive, dynamic participant in the enterprise of life, capable of adaptation, accommodation, and, to some extent, repair. — Sherwin B. Nuland

The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals. — Sandra Day O'Connor

You're old for so much longer than you're young, she thinks. Really it hardly seems fair. — Anne Tyler

I have always considered that there is a great deal of difference between keeping one's own secret, and keeping a secret for another soul; — Eleanor Catton

This is why I am not overly enthusiastic about the various "spiritual exercises" in meditation or yoga which some consider essential for release from the ego. For when practiced in order to "get" some kind of spiritual illumination or awakening, they strengthen the fallacy that the ego can toss itself away by a tug at its own bootstraps. But there is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost. — Alan W. Watts

If a girl is traveling in the steppe and she sees nothing but a single moving dot in the great distance, the dot sees her. Stag, man, wolf. — Atticus Lish

The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play. — Heinrich Heine

If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight. — Sandy Koufax

Women talk when they want to. Or don't. — Robert A. Heinlein

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music. — George C. Marshall

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it. — Jean De La Bruyere

I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do. — Princess Diana

It's exciting to watch young children read poetry for the first time. You can sense the wheels turning and you just know their brain is doing this wonderful thing called learning. It's magical! — Elaine Grey

When she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire — William Faulkner