Quotes & Sayings About Retirement Of Sachin Tendulkar

Porn puts people to sleep, conceptually and politically as well as erotically. — Naomi Wolf

About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard to suppose that many people go back, from a spontaneous desire, to reread 1984: there is neither reason nor need to, no one forgets it. The usual distinctions between forgotten details and a vivid general impression mean nothing here, for the book is written out of one passionate breath, each word is bent to a severe discipline of meaning, everything is stripped to the bareness of terror.
Kafka's The Trial is also a book of terror, but it is a paradigm and to some extent a puzzle, so that one may lose oneself in the rhythm of the paradigm and play with the parts of the puzzle. Kafka's novel persuades us that life is inescapably hazardous and problematic, but the very 'universality' of this idea helps soften its impact: to apprehend the terrible on the plane of metaphysics is to lend it an almost soothing aura. — Irving Howe

A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers. — Samael Aun Weor

Although ... somehow, I always pictured the princess ... I don't know. In a dress. — Marissa Meyer

I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values. — Barack Obama

I always bow to my enemies before I destroy them! — Gabrielle

Delhi's most famous Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya, who gave spiritual guidance to the incredible Amir Khusro - musician, scholar, poet and the father of qawwali. — Saba Naqvi

A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants — Robert Anton Wilson

It's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course. — J.K. Rowling

We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find. — Lauren Child

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it. — H.L. Mencken

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti