Rustom Pavri Quotes & Sayings

There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert. — Robert Breault

Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore. — Beverley Mitchell

It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix. — Simon Taylor-Davis

We haven't scored which means you haven't got a chance of winning. — Bobby Robson

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living. — Charles Lindbergh

Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy ... — Emo Philips

Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other. — Lysa TerKeurst

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal. — Norah Jones

Thucydides wrote of people who made rules and followed them. Going by rule they killed entire classes of enemies without exception. Most of those who died felt, I am sure, that a terrible mistake was being made, that, whatever the rule was, it could not be meant for them. 'I--!': that was their last word as their throats were cut. A word of protest: I, the exception.

"Were they exceptions? The truth is, given time to speak, we would all claim to be exceptions. For each of us there is a case to be made. We all deserve the benefit of the doubt.

"But there are times when there is no time for all that close listening, all those exceptions, all that mercy. There is no time, so we fall back on the rule. And that is a great pity, the greatest pity. That is what you could have learned from Thucydides. It is a great pity when we find ourselves entering upon times like those. We should enter upon them with a sinking heart. They are by no means to be welcomed. — J.M. Coetzee

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. — Dore Ashton

The providences of God may be observed to conduce to our holiness, not only by preventing sin, that we may not fall into it; but also by purging our sins when we are fallen into them. 'By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin' (Isaiah 27:9). — John Flavel