Seema Rao Quotes & Sayings

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. — Robert Dold

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously. — Howard Hodgkin

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman. — John Lydon

It's funny, when things go on the internet now and people say 'that's not real,' well, that's what painting's always done - it's taken things from the world and said, Look how much more real this is now. — Margaux Williamson

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. — Kate Millett

A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide. — Richard Quest

I've sort of become the poster boy for quitting your job and following your dreams. — John Tesh

What was it with small-town people automatically assuming that because two people of the opposite sex were speaking, they must be having sex? — Jamie McGuire

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance. — Theodosius Dobzhansky

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarian regimes which horrify us follow of necessity. From the collectivist standpoint intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual, are essential and unavoidable consequences of this basic premise, and the collectivist can admit this and at the same time claim that his system is superior to one in which the "selfish" interests of the individual are allowed to obstruct the full realisation of the ends the community pursues. — Friedrich Hayek

Maybe, it takes a brave man to be with a woman like me. In relationships, I don't look the other way, and dim my voice when I have something to say. I learned that I simply don't do well with huge egos, for I always see myself as his equal. — Mirtha Michelle

Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving. — Eric Maisel

All her life she'd listened to talk, life was full of talk. People said things, true and interesting things and ridiculous things. Her father used to say they talked too much. There was much to say, she had said her share. How else was one to know a thing except by naming it? But words now fell so far from where life was. Words fell on a distant shore. It turned out there were other tracks on which life registered where things weren't acknowledged with words or given attention to or commented on. — Susan Minot

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. — William Hazlitt

Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul ... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish. — Rumi