Upanishadic Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That ... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.' — Malcolm X

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money. — James Chanos

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting. — Mark Zero

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness. — Iris Murdoch

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs ... — George Orwell

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy. — Vikram Seth

Take charge of your thoughts! — Charles R. Swindoll

I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witless bellowing of the barracks yard and the witty chatter of the yes-men. I want to hear the rustling of the organ, this deluge of ethereal notes. I need it against the shrill farce of marches. — Pascal Mercier

Oh, it was Malfoy, I was thinking about him and I lost track of things! — J.K. Rowling

For you
i have saved poems
under my skin. — Sanober Khan

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement. — Keith Ellison

He had been instructed only in that innocent and ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made a man, but kept a child. When — Henry David Thoreau

The buzzard could not reason but he knew the patterns that led to food. His entire life was built upon such fragments of knowledge and he knew that where such groups of men rode, death rode with them. — Louis L'Amour

Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us. — Libba Bray

So you see, Case, you need us. You need us as badly as you did when we scraped you up from the gutter. — William Gibson