Shankars Quotes & Sayings

I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever. — Abigail Disney

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.' — Derek Blasberg

When you awaken, you will see that this is Heaven on Earth, and everything in physical form is the body of God. — Leonard Jacobson

For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed. — Thomas Hobbes

reaches the American consumer, only one American worker has physically touched the final product: the UPS delivery guy. — Enrico Moretti

People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them. — Anthony Robbins

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life. — Paul Hoffman

We are undoing a pattern ... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution. — Pema Chodron

To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God. — Don Cupitt

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex! — Margaret Deland

It is impossible to describe the shock of return. I recall that I stood for the longest time staring at a neatly painted yellow line on a neatly formed cement curb. Yellow yellow line line. I pondered the human industry, the paint, the cement truck and concrete forms, all the resources that had gone into that one curb. For what? I could not quite think of the answer. So that no car would park there? Are there so many cars that America must be divided into places with and places without them? Was it always so, or did they multiply vastly, along with telephones and new shoes and transistor radios and cellophane-wrapped tomatoes, in our absence? — Barbara Kingsolver

The world in which I found myself was horrifying. In that world, people fought with sharpened rasp files, ate dogs, covered their faces with tattoos and sodomized goats. In that world, people killed for a package of tea. — Sergei Dovlatov

Somebody has to be tireless or the fast buck operators would asphalt the entire coast, fill every bay and slay every living thing incapable of carrying a wallet. — John D. MacDonald