Shantaram Movie Quotes & Sayings

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind. — Mary Ritter Beard

Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations. — Peter Farb

Society destroys your individuality, your soul. — Swami Dhyan Giten

Mr. Boffin, as if he were about to have his portrait painted, or to be electrified, or to be made a Freemason, or to be placed at any other solitary disadvantage, ascended the rostrum prepared for him. — Charles Dickens

Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel leading out of the lake. Suppose then another similar cause to have excited another equal series of waves, which arrive at the same time, with the first. Neither series of waves will destroy the other, but their effects will be combined. — Thomas Young

It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it. — Lydia M. Child

A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. — Lycurgus Of Sparta

The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it. — Meena Kandasamy

I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper. — Doseone

The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was so fleeting. — Chelsey Philpot

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much. — Bill Bryson

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good. — Phil Simms

I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me. — Les Dawson