Rastogi North Quotes & Sayings

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. — John Moody

You've got balls inviting me here. — Guy Fieri

There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me. — Jessica Lange

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. — Thomas Carlyle

If you want to do his soul good, why do you continually obstruct him? It hardly makes him a better man. Do you never think that, if you had bowed to the king's wishes years ago, if you had entered a convent and allowed him to remarry, he would never have broken with Rome? There would have been no need. Sufficient doubt was cast upon your marriage for you to retire with a good grace. You would have been honoured by all. But now the titles you cling to are empty. Henry was a good son of Rome. You drove him to this extremity. You, not he, split Christendom. And I expect that you know that, and that you think about it in the silence of the night. — Hilary Mantel

The problem of race is deep and wide and requires seismic change. But if we look to government to solve it, we might as well feel hopeless. If we look corporate America to solve it, we'll be waiting a long, long time. And if we agree with Ta-Nehisi Coates, who tentatively suggests that "the only work that will matter, will be the work done by us," then we will truly despair, for we know how well that has worked. If we follow that track, we'll quickly add in disbelief, as he did, "Or perhaps not."

As I've said, the problem of race is not "out there." It's "in here," in the human heart. And though there is no task in heaven or on earth more difficult than changing the human heart,I believe in the one who can do it. It requires a supernatural solution.

Yes, I believe in God. You see, I know how God can change a person's heart. — Benjamin Watson

Don't focus on the mishaps; consider the pleasures instead. — Victor LaValle

When you want to know how God wants you to reach your city, start a new church, or be involved in His work, ask Him. Then when He tells you, don't be surprised if you can't find any church that is doing it the same way. — Henry T. Blackaby

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. — Russell Baker

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease. — Freya Stark

I love working with the young. — Peter O'Toole

It's so shameful of me: I like you. — Morrissey

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God. — Paulo Coelho

They talk of me going around buying souls, like a fishwife come market day, never stopping to ask themselves why. I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No. They belong to themselves ... they just hate to face up to it. — Neil Gaiman

Why does the same dull current of ignoble blood creep through a thousand generations in China without any provision for its own purification, without the mixture of one drop from the fountains of goodness & glory ... ? The summit of their philosophy and science is how to make tea ... [it goes on and it gets worse]. — Ralph Waldo Emerson