Shanmukhananda Quotes & Sayings

And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors. — Grover Cleveland

Even now, I hoped he would take my hand, and when he didn't, I felt my empty hand as if it were missing a finger. — Jaclyn Dolamore

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites. — Kim Stanley Robinson

When the album was done I loved it. It was a mixture of electric and acoustic solo performances with dubs. I called it Le Noise, after Dan. It was a French Canadian joke, a very English was of saying Lanois. I was doing a show that introduced a lot of the songs, and things were going great. I was very happy. — Neil Young

The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser. — Vladimir Nabokov

Jesus tells Peter to forgive seventy times seven times, not because the person we forgive will it that many times, but because resentment can have such a grip on our hearts that we need to forgive that often for our own healing. — Justin Davis

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. — Walt Whitman

To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off. — Nancy O'Dell

She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night. — Thomas Pynchon

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay. — Zubin Mehta

I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in al manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future. — Ransom Riggs

Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future. — E. O. Wilson

But those who manage to genuinely place their hopes totally in God will never be disappointed. God will be with them continuously. They will then be able to bear witness to the miraculous way Providence works in their lives, yet without recognizing it. All of us have such experiences if we pay attention. — Kyriacos C. Markides

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives. — Eugene V. Debs

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. — Mahatma Gandhi