Sreeja Ravi Quotes & Sayings

He doesn't know what the world is like today. The thought that his own conception of the world was so different from his father's was like a protecting wall around his entire being. When his father went out into the street he had only the mosque, the Koran, the other old men in his mind. It was the immutable world of law, the written word, unchanging beneficence, but it was in some way wrinkled and dried up. Whereas when Amar stepped out the door there was the whole vast earth waiting, the live mysterious earth, that belonged to him in a way it could belong to no one else, and where anything at all might happen. — Paul Bowles

What gets a steer from 80 to 1100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous quantities of corn, protein and fat supplements, and an arsenal of new drugs. — Michael Pollan

Their indifference towards Jane when not immediately before them restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her former dislike. — Jane Austen

The client's question, "Are we getting the best deal?" (price negotiation) is very different from "Can we afford this?" (value justification); it is important to understand the difference. — Mahan Khalsa

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. — Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost. — Goliarda Sapienza

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun — Solomon

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. — Orison Swett Marden

Photons come out of nowhere, they cannot be stored, they can barely be pinned down in time, and they have no home in space whatsoever. That is, light occupies no volume and has no mass. The similarity between a thought and a photon is very deep. Both are born in a region beyond space and time where nature controls all processes in that void which is full of creative intelligence. — Deepak Chopra

You can't get a friend more loyal than your dog. — Dale Jarrett

Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,
Short lot, or not, to be content with all. — Robert Herrick

He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything. — Spencer Johnson

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property. — Lewis Henry Morgan

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman. — Taylor Momsen

His ready answer impressed me, reiterating my belief that one of the reasons I required a boyfriend was to halve my ignorance and double my chances of understanding the world and myself. — Bob Smith