Veerasamy Quotes & Sayings

None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands. — Barack Obama

If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt. Religion exists with wonder. If you want to be religious then create more wonder, discover more wonder. Allow your eyes to be more filled with wonder than anything else. Be surprised by everything that is happening. Everything is so tremendously wonderful that it is simply unbelievable how you go on living without dancing, how you go on living without becoming ecstatic. You must not be seeing what is happening all around. — Rajneesh

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you. — Rita Moreno

The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect. — Gary Haugen

A camel in distress isn't a shy creature. It doesn't hang around in bars, nursing a solitary drink. It doesn't phone up old friends and sob at them. It doesn't mope, or write long soulful poems about Life and how dreadful it is when seen from a bedsitter. It doesn't know what angst is. — Terry Pratchett

When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot. — Eric Hoffer

I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA. — Cary Fukunaga

In the end [after the 1905 revolution], Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell. — Richard Pipes

The obedient in art are always the forgotten ... The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas ... Chop your own path. Get off the car track. — A. Y. Jackson

Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all. — Charles Spurgeon

In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden. — Libba Bray

Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man. — William Wordsworth

We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future. — Al Gore

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective. — Peter F. Drucker

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws. — Thaddeus Stevens