Totsikaw Quotes & Sayings

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true. — Joan Robinson

Daydreaming subverts the world. — Raoul Vaneigem

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them? — Dan Ariely

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. — Ludwig Tieck

Unfortunately, we may not always fully enter into the mysteries of Christ, because we don't persevere in praying the Rosary. We forget that, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, prayer can be a real battle (135). Sometimes the attacks in this battle are dryness in praying the Rosary. Well we should keep praying it. Sometimes as we get ready to pray the Rosary, we suddenly feel an aversion, fatigue comes over us, and our minds think of a million other things that have to be done. We should keep praying it. — Michael Gaitley

I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits — Kate Winslet

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time. — Muriel Barbery

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong. — Walter Scott

To him, restaurants were the ultimate expression of ungodly waste. For of all the luxuries that your money could buy, a restaurant left you the least to show for it. A fur coat could at least be worn in winter to fend off the cold, and a silver spoon could be melted down and sold to a jeweler. But a porterhouse steak? You chopped it, chewed it, swallowed it, wiped your lips and dropped your napkin on your plate. That was that. And asparagus? My father would sooner have carried a twenty-dollar bill to his grave than spend it on some glamorous weed coated in cheese. — Amor Towles

He who does not walk against the arrows cannot talk about the strength of his shield! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A profound theme is of trifling importance if the characters knocked around by it are uninteresting, and brilliant technique is a nuisance if it pointlessly prevents us from seeing the characters and what they do. — John Gardner

I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am. — Michael Stipe

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented. — Lemony Snicket

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy. — Nadia Boulanger