Swami Swaroopananda Quotes & Sayings

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige. — Sydney J. Harris

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. — Mahatma Gandhi

The fact is I'm very self-similar. — John Hodgman

It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject. — W. H. Auden

You banter, and you talk, and you get a sense of the speed of thinking and flexibility ... It's not terribly scientific, but I interview a dozen or two dozen people a week, and I get a certain vibe reasonably fast. — Mickey Drexler

We can't be friends. I can't be friends with you, because I love you, and you've hurt me. — J. Lynn

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah! — Martin Scorsese

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good. — Robbie Robertson

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know. — George R R Martin

Sweetheart, I'm telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn't matter if you had thirty years," she tells me. "It wouldn't be enough. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Getting rid of a truth makes us wiser than getting hold of a delusion — Michael R. Fletcher

Even as Camille's beauty and precocity took form, when pride alone might have nurtured proprietary feelings, she never seemed quite the child Judith was meant to call her own. — Tom McNeal

There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle. — Bill Moyers