Shivakumara Swamiji Quotes & Sayings

Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest. — F.B. Meyer

I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one. — Marjane Satrapi

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. — William Throsby Bridges

His intelligence was just something he'd been born with. Luck of the draw, like being beautiful. It was a rationalization to say that he'd worked hard. It was like being given a fine knife and taking the trouble to polish and sharpen it: it's great that you make the effort, but someone had to give you the knife. — Adelle Waldman

Its hard to die. Harder to live — Dan Simmons

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning. — Donald Rumsfeld

I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period. — Oprah Winfrey

Orthodox Marxism, therefore, does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the results of Marx's investigations. It is not the 'belief' in this or that thesis, nor the exegesis of a 'sacred' book. On the contrary, orthodoxy refers exclusively to method. It is the scientific conviction that dialectical materialism is the road to truth and that its methods can be developed, expanded and deepened only along the lines laid down by its founders. It is the conviction, moreover, that all attempts to surpass or 'improve' it have led and must lead to over-simplification, triviality and eclecticism. — Gyorgy Lukacs

Swimming isn't everything, winning is. — Mark Spitz

John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject. — Paul C. Nagel

War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence.

Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers — Robert A. Heinlein

How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?"
"With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest ... — Brandon Sanderson