Satyavrata Quotes & Sayings

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size. — Baden Powell De Aquino

I feel old and finished. I'm nearly thirty now. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual. — Rachel Caine

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace. — Jimi Hendrix

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change. — Alexander Pushkin

I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith. — Gary Bauer

Not to know yourself is dangerous, to that self and to others. Those who destroy, who cause great suffering, kill off some portion of themselves first, or hide from the knowledge of their acts and from their own emotion, and their internal landscape fills with partitions, caves, and minefields, blank spots, pit traps, and more, a landscape turned against itself, a landscape that does not know itself, a landscape through which they may not travel. — Rebecca Solnit

On ACHIEVEMENT: "We all need encouragement--I love Notable, Quotable, DO-able Quotes! — Nanci McGraw

But never in the four hundred years now since I was born, have I ever seen anything to make me doubt whether God exists in some form or the other. Not even the reflection in the mirror. — Stephenie Meyer

Awe, I discovered, was my favorite feeling. It was a rare experience, but when it happened, it was like an orgasm for the mind. — Augusten Burroughs

No one lacked imagination like the English. Yet he could not dismiss the notion that this lass dressed in breeches could be the seer his grandmother foretold. Finding an English lass lying on a Scottish hillside so many miles from the border was strange enough to have a touch of magic about it. — Margaret Mallory

Soon the heavens will burst and torrential rains will flood the earth. The sea will rise and submerge the land. When this happens collect the seed of every plant and a pair of every animal and wait for me on a boat with your wife.' Realizing this was no ordinary fish, but Vishnu himself, Satyavrata did as he was told. The great fish appeared before him, bigger than before, with a horn on its head. Satyavrata tied his boat to the horn with Adi Sesha as the rope. The fish then towed the boat through the great deluge to the only piece of dry land, the peak of Mount Mandara. There Satyavrata and his wife waited for the waters to recede. With the seed of every plant and a pair of all animals he would establish the new world. (Bhagavata Purana) — Devdutt Pattanaik

gamos, meaning a marriage or conjoining of hunter and prey. — Loreth Anne White

Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls. — Andrea Gibson

Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen. — Joyce Carol Oates