Steppad Quotes & Sayings

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. — Rumi

Really, the definition of what makes us "human" confuses me. Showing "humanity" is like this synonym for "treating others kindly" or "like you want to be treated" or whatever, when that isn't really human at all. Whoever came up with that definition is a real scammer, and a real genius. More than anything else, humans have been terrible to each other throughout history, and this is still the way it works today and will continue to work. It's how we're wired. I have "human understanding"; that's it. — A.D. Aliwat

Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long months, even years on occasion, for the splatter of applause to reach our ears, if indeed we are not damned by total neglect. — Bryan Forbes

Proving yourself is a dangerous trap. — Richard Carlson

A person who designs buildings is called an architect, but in the case of Prufrock Prep a better term might be 'depressed architect. — Lemony Snicket

It's really easy to insist that people read the manual. It's really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it, or for not caring enough to pay attention. — Seth Godin

If it looks a bit rough, a little worn, with little splotches - those have the swetest flavor. The ones that are perfect on the outside tend to be a bit more bland. That is true about many things in life. — Jeff Wheeler

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. — Steven Wright

He was absolutely, on this occasion, a living, detestable, dangerous presence. — Henry James

National festivals should become festivals of development. Republic Day or Independence Day should not be only about unfurling the Tricolour in the state capitals. We have to make them opportunities of Lok Shikshan (Mass Education). — Narendra Modi

If you don't have a flag sticking out
of your ass, you must be a communist. — Chrissie Hynde

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. — Charles Caleb Colton

Religion is poetry, - poetry is religion. — Marie Corelli

Birds are holes in heaven through which a man may pass, — Jim Harrison