Sumant Mandal Quotes & Sayings

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. — Theodor Adorno

You're welcome. I love the bargain book section. I always find some good deals at more than half off the cover price. — Amy Clipston

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. — Aldous Huxley

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded. — Loni Anderson

I see you as you could become, no longer the lightning, but the storm. The storm that will swallow the world entire. — Victoria Aveyard

I don't really know what kind of actor I am. — Paul Dano

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to. — Basil W. Maturin

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians. — Eric Corley

There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life. — Michael Ondaatje

You know what I hate most of all in the whole wide world? ... More than people who think that if you're bisexual it means you'll fuck absolutely anyone (especially them)? — Alan Cumming

When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That does not mean I do not love them, because I do, with all my heart, it simply means that the meaning they produce is not sufficient to fulfill a whole life. Not mine, at any rate. — Karl Ove Knausgard

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best. — Serj Tankian

If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets. — Robert Kiyosaki

Today we can see many different forms of Buddhism, such as Zen and Theravada Buddhism. All these different aspects are practices of Buddha's teachings, and all are equally precious; they are just different presentations. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason. — David Hume