Swingin Medallions Quotes & Sayings

Why, Uruvi always wondered, would Queen Madri consign herself to the flames, when no queen before her had joined their husband in the funeral pyre? Moreover, why would the mother of tiny, helpless six-month-old twins, Nakul and Sahadeva, kill herself and leave them orphaned and under the care of her husband's first wife? It was strange. Had Madri, too, been mortally wounded like her husband, King Pandu, when they had been attacked? Had she been able to talk to Kunti before she died? Had Shakuni played up the curse of the sage to his advantage after all? If he could instigate Duryodhana to burn the Pandavas and the Queen Mother in the lac palace, he would not have any qualms in murdering King Pandu too. The only person who probably knew the truth was Kunti - but she was an evasive lady who knew how to keep her secrets. Uruvi recalled how she had pestered her on her wedding day about whether she had any regrets, but had got nothing out of her. — Kavita Kane

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot. — G.K. Chesterton

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, which was designed to ensure privacy and properly regulated access to student records, has become "the shield behind which higher education hides the academic corruption in college athletics. — Jay M Smith

As Francis Schaeffer reminded us, "The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars" (5). — Leland Ryken

Envy is ignorance,
Imitation is Suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time. — Dakota Johnson

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin. — Jay Samit

We knew it was all going to go to hell, and we just stood by and watched it happen anyway. There ought to be a prize for that kind of stupidity. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice. — Constantin Stanislavski

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios. — Derek Bailey