Ushas Mudra Quotes & Sayings

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph. — John Updike

Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here. — Sophocles

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. — Pythagoras

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness. — Simone Weil

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much — John Gay

I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe. — Kristen Schaal

American natives were thought to be a simple, malleable people who, once they came to understand the benefits of European faith and civilization, would embrace them. — Landon Y. Jones

Was that you just inadvertently telling me to stay away from you?"
"No," he answered, meeting my eyes. "That was me telling you directly to listen to your gut and what it's screaming at you right now. — Nicole Williams

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps. — Josh Mandel