Vallabhaneni Vasudha Quotes & Sayings

If a liar tells you he is lying, is he telling the truth. — Shehan Karunatilaka

A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it. — John Hagee

Technology is transforming everything. Who knows what it's doing, we don't really understand it. — Vijay Seshadri

The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws. — Ludwig Von Mises

When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me. — Ali Banisadr

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts. — Albert Camus

Reformed theology is ALWAYS being reformed in each new generation. And reformed theology as it is usually reported today is NOT the whole story. — Oliver D. Crisp

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? — Marcus Aurelius

The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme. — Jeffrey Rosen

She wore a lot of makeup, badly applied. There was lipstick on her teeth. If she'd been a dancer, it must have been in Fantasia. — Robert B. Parker

Art is science made clear. — Jean Cocteau

How short a period often reverses the character of our sentiments, rendering that which yesterday we despised, today desirable. — Ann Radcliffe

Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language. — Lev Grossman

Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states. — George Ball

We have not yet reached the goal but ... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. — Herbert Hoover