Tharoor Ishaan Quotes & Sayings

In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana. — Gautama Buddha

The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated. — Hugo Black

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. — Dalai Lama XIV

Become a teacher. Your country needs you. — Barack Obama

The noblest ideals, but only on condition that they be attained by themselves, that they fall on our plate from the sky, and, above all, gratuitously, gratuitously, so that we need pay nothing for them. We like very much to get things, but terribly dislike having to pay for them, and so it is with everything. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So he decided he would never listen to anybody he knew? That's just like someone in a fairy tale.'
Knowing he had given his trust amiss, how could he bestow it again?'
That's foolish. Did he expect never to make any mistakes? — Pamela Dean

There are no trophies for the real victories in life. — Chris Matakas

Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love ... — Hermann Hesse

Sadly, the only constant in my writing environment stems from some inexplicable need to listen to the news. CNN loops over and over in the background from the time I wake until the time I finally, blessedly, fall asleep. — Lauren Weisberger

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone. — Susan Mitchell

If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back. — Jane Harman

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy. — Veronica Roth

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court. — Miguel Gomes

I'm sure that a huge proportion of the situation you are facing, is out out of your control. There's nothing you can do about it. But that proportion can't be 100 percent. There's got to be some proportion--let's say it's even just 2 percent--that is within your control. You can work on that. Who knows what a difference that may make! — Richard N. Bolles