Thakur Ji Quotes & Sayings

There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent "what if" scenarios
what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?
because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been y, history might have plunged forever down a completely different path. Since we are agents, we have an interest in the efficacy of agency. — Louis Menand

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. — Doug Larson

Brains first and then Hard Work. — A.A. Milne

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school. — Dolly Parton

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy. — Rene Redzepi

The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together. — Mychal Wynn

It had filled my time - given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less ... alone. — Sarah J. Maas

And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. ( ... ) But I remember you that day and you looked at peace with yourself and it made me reconsider everything I had planned to do. Because I thought to myself, you can't do this to her, not after the Hermit thing."
"Do what to me? I don't think leaving me on that platform would have changed my life, Griggs," I lie.
"You being on that platform changed mine. — Melina Marchetta

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. — Paul Krugman

Some believers tend to forget God's persistent faithfulness in the face of the spectacular and showy. — Max Anders

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end. — Alice Hegan Rice

Fulgham told the bureau's director that if they gave him the authority to distribute control, he would cut the number of people needed from more than four hundred to just thirty employees and deliver Sentinel for $20 million in a bit over a year. — Charles Duhigg