Swapnali Patil Quotes & Sayings

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them. — Roh Moo-hyun

We cannot know the future, nor can we change it, ... It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can. — Geraldine Brooks

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us. — Jane Porter

You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen this a few times in church history. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

I'm not classically trained, but I am flawed in a very fantastic way! — Cee Lo Green

(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in mathematical terms. Sometimes the logical structure of a conflict situation admits rational decisions; sometimes it does not. — Anatol Rapoport

In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others,' writes La Rochefoucauld in an aphorism which transports us with an energy and exactitude comparable to that of Maillard bridge. The Swiss engineer reduces the number of supports just as the French writer compacts into a single line what lesser minds might have taken pages to express. We delight in complexity to which genius has lent an appearance of simplicity. (p 207) — Alain De Botton

I was as limpid as dammit. — P.G. Wodehouse