Umashankar Parida Quotes & Sayings

The irony of life, the Cheshire commented. Like Carroll, the Cheshire was capable of being anyone, anytime he wanted, except one person, himself, because he never knew who he really was. — Cameron Jace

What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base. — Syama Prasad Mukherjee

But how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only 5 percent like a turd? — Stephen Jay Gould

Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed. — Philip K. Dick

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. — Pope John Paul II

There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up. — Chet Faker