Swarangini Quotes & Sayings

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay. — Bhartrhari

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. — Dick Armey

The Wild Man doesn't come to full life through being "natural," going with the flow, smoking weed, reading nothing, and being generally groovy. Ecstasy amounts to living within reach of the high voltage of the golden gifts. The ecstasy comes after thought, after discipline imposed on ourselves, after grief. — Robert Bly

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow. — Ronald Reagan

The behavior of the economy as a whole, at the aggregate, macro-level, is built up from the individual equations at the micro-level. — Paul Ormerod

No one knows better than I how unworthy I am.'
A sentimental sigh and an inarticulate murmur from Selina showed that this frank avowal had moved her profoundly. Upon Abby it had a different effect. 'Trying to take the wind out of my eye, Mr Calverleigh?' she said.
If he was disconcerted he did not betray it, but answered immediately: 'No, but, perhaps - the words out of your mouth?'
Privately, she gave him credit for considerable adroitness, but all she said was: 'You are mistaken: I am not so uncivil!'
'And it isn't true!' Fanny declared passionately. 'I won't permit anyone to say such a thing - not even you, Abby!'
'Well, I haven't said it, my dear, nor am I likely to, so there is really no need for you to fly up into the boughs! — Georgette Heyer

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul. — George Eliot

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities. — Arthur Rock

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilisation. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others. — Bertrand Russell

I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me. — Robert Barry

On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. They have to decide whether to keep it, or give it away to where their minority status makes them permanently powerless and vulnerable. — Jim Sillars

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come — Malcolm X

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool. — Bernard Sahlins

We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to let go. We must not continue our sinful practices in hopes that the divine grace will one day overpower our spirits, and make us hate them for their own deformity. — Henry Scougal