Savitri Brata Quotes & Sayings

We'd like to believe that by discussing what has occurred will change things. Until now, here's a mental illness that must be dealt with by going to the root. — Benjamin Janey

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. — Cory Doctorow

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. — Tom Stoppard

To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? ... They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all. — Sheri S. Tepper

You nurslings of Protestantism astonish me. You unguarded Englishwomen walk calmly amidst red-hot ploughshares and escape burning. I believe, if some of you were thrown into Nebuchadnezzar's hottest furnace you would issue forth untraversed by the smell of fire. — Charlotte Bronte

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them. — Arundhati Roy

The obvious thing to say of his appearance was that he would have been extremely handsome if he had not been entirely bald. But, indeed, that would itself be a rather bald way of putting it. Fantastic as it sounds, it would fit the case better to say that people would have been surprised to see hair growing on him; as surprised as if they had found hair growing on the bust of a Roman emperor. — G.K. Chesterton

A ballplayer doesn't make excuses. — Roberto Alomar

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God. — Elisabeth Elliot

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether. — Ralph Barton Perry

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. — Margaret Fuller