Tangaloor Silken Quotes & Sayings

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics. — Aung San Suu Kyi

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There is a compelling tendency to forget who you are and what you were made for. There is a tendency to be shortsighted, myopic, and easily distracted. There is a tendency to settle for less when you have been created for more. There is something expansive, glorious, and eternal that is meant to give direction to everything you do. — Paul David Tripp

Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us. — Lin Yutang

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing. — Michelle Dockery

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. — Ambrose Bierce

Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there. — David Hackworth

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates. — Erving Goffman

Wherever the idea of guilt, the fear of sin prevails, the mind becomes traitor to the body: "I know him not and will have nothing to do with him." Whenever man entertains the belief in good and evil, he is bound to pretend the good and do the evil. — Various

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed. — Robert Redford

Malicious or not, strong leaders always attract others. — Richelle Mead

If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest. — Sandra Bullock

In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off. — Jill Lepore