Thathamangalam Village Quotes & Sayings

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull. — Thomas Jefferson

It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it's your mind that allows the words to come to life. — Jack Gantos

That was how I knew Sister Mukumbo was a real teacher, aside from her welcoming smile and her blackboard penmanship. She asked a teacher's type of question. The kind that says: Join in. — Rita Williams-Garcia

Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart. — Elizabeth Berrien

Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me. — Robin Hobb

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us. — Paul Theroux

So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind of cross-border trade to happen. So therefore the idea of borderlessness has a performative contradiction within it which has to be kept alive. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible. — Thomas Bangalter

Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough. — Orison Swett Marden

Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better. — Lauren Potter

Our human race is affected by a chronic underestimation of the possibility of the future straying from the course initially envisioned (in addition to other biases that sometimes exert a compounding effect). To take an obvious example, think about how many people divorce. Almost all of them are acquainted with the statistic that between one-third and one-half of all marriages fail, something the parties involved did not forecast while tying the knot. Of course, "not us," because "we get along so well" (as if others tying the knot got along poorly). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Be your own best buddy. — Toni Sorenson

I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them. — Bruce Parry