Subramania Quotes & Sayings

All the on-lookers were bewildered.The lovely slave girl, Briseis, had won the Battle of the Sexes with a kiss.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong

It's strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal. — Stephen Chbosky

But somehow, standing in the clear night air, under a sky that glowed like a shower of sparks, none of that stuff mattered. It slipped off me. It was like shedding your clothes before you step in the shower. I felt I was down to essentials again. In fact I felt very close to God at that moment. I guess if you're ever going to feel close to God it'll be while you're looking at the heavens. — John Marsden

It should come as no surprise that Berra, or any athlete who makes it to the highest levels of sports, was unusually determined. But the brand of perseverance Berra, Shelford, Puyol, and the other Tier One captains showed is peculiar, even among the elite. The main point of difference is that their natural ability seemed to bear no relation to the size of their accomplishments. Something enabled them to set aside their limitations and tune out the skepticism from their critics. But what was it? What allows some people to press on until they achieve mastery? - — Sam Walker

I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end. — Brandon Sanderson

But of course, she remembered, that was why women were so wonderful; it was their love and imagination that transformed these unremarkable beings. For most men, when one came to think of it, were undistinguished to look at, if not positively ugly. Fabian was an exception, and perhaps love affairs with handsome men tended to be less stable because so much less sympathy and imagination were needed on the woman's part? — Barbara Pym

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. — Livy

I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury. — Joe Taslim

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address. — Jeffrey R. Holland

If You find yourself in a hole; stop digging. — Sharon Cooke Vargas

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name! — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

He who is attached to things will suffer much. — Laozi