Upsc Examination Quotes & Sayings

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage. — Cillian Murphy

For thousands of years, it had been nature
and its supposed creator
that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense of finitude and limitation and had elicited a feeling in which fear and respect coagulated into a strangely pleasing feeling of humility, a feeling which the philosophers of the eighteenth century had famously termed the sublime.
But then had come a transformation to which we were still the heirs ... Over the course of the nineteenth century, the dominant catalyst for that feeling of the sublime had ceased to be nature. We were now deep in the era of the technological sublime, when awe could most powerfully be invoked not by forests or icebergs but by supercomputers, rockets and particle accelerators. We were now almost exclusively amazed by ourselves. — Alain De Botton

I hate Risk. I have for many years now. I hate that you still like Risk. I hate that you guilt me into playing with you because no one else will. I hate that you do the accents of the countries you're attacking from. And I hate that you wear a beret every time we play. God, do I hate the beret. — Colin Nissan

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades. — Barbara Taylor Bradford

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant. — Stephen Leacock

The tighter your grip, the less you have to hold.
-The Pythian Scrolls — Aedan Byrnes

Without you to hold i'll be freezing. — Ed Sheeran

They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now. — George Harrison

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about. — Whitfield Diffie

No human difference matters much until it becomes a privilege, until it becomes the basis for oppression. Power is the vector that turns minor into major. — Michael Ignatieff

The best of all good friends is pride. — Gertrude Atherton

My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States. — Roberto Benigni

It was dark by the time Ye got off work on the eve of Chinese New Year, 1980. — Liu Cixin

She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames. — E. M. Forster

Gratitude opens the door to ... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude. — Deepak Chopra