Upakanda Quotes & Sayings

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I think what doesn't kill you makes you a better human being. It opens your eyes, your heart, and your mind. — Derek Hough

I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back to the 19th century. I was shocked to find what I would describe as far more utopian ideas in the 19th century than in the 20th century. Not only were the ideas so extreme, but surprising people were adopting them. — Christine Jennings

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition. — Sui He

In a society of increasingly mass-produced, assembly-line entertainment, where every individual is treated like an empty pitcher to be filled from above, jazz retains something of the spirit of the handicrafts of yesteryear. The print of the human spirit warms it. Deep down, jazz expresses the enforced & compassionate attitudes of a minority group and may well appeal to us because we all have blue moods and, in a fundamental sense, none of us is wholly free. — Marshall W. Stearns

Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to music all day on their iPods, so as artists, we become a real fixture in people's lives. As an artist, you can't take it personal. It's like your big brother teasing you. — Nicki Minaj

I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that. — Halle Berry

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. — Henry Louis Gates

I imagined a dark world
where the stars clamor to be inside us. Whatever we invent
becomes the history we have to live. In truth, it takes only
a handful of history's shadows to commandeer our dreams
It takes a famine of the heart to empty the streets of our words.
It takes an imaginary terror to rid ourselves of imagination. — Richard Jackson

Faith when looked at by the world looks like a dog chasing his tail.
Chase your tail or go to hell,crazy dog wins. — Attaboy

The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten — Anderson Cooper

Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man. — Charlotte Bronte

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house. — Ralph Waldo Emerson