Shivani Verma Quotes & Sayings

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. — C.S. Lewis

It is easier to die bravely than to live so. — Christian Nestell Bovee

To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed. — Ursula K. Le Guin

And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory. — Marcel Proust

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. — Howard Staunton

Ever flipped out and began to dance around in excitement when she saw that the theater also sold packages of Pixie Stix. — Chanda Hahn

They became millionaires by budgeting and controlling expenses, and they maintain their affluent status the same way. Sometimes — Thomas J. Stanley

We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and murdered by Islamic fanatics, accused of exactly the same things that I was, these medieval crimes of apostasy And heresy, but then broadening from that into a broader attack on all of us. — Salman Rushdie

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things? — Thomas Huxley

Two women in love confirms for me that there is a love that can push you beyond what everyone else says is possible. I — Daisy Hernandez

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble. — Channing Tatum

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing - for she had done mischief. — Jane Austen

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this! — Alain Badiou

There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life ... — Rex Harrison