Vishnu Prabhakar Quotes & Sayings

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. — Gail Sheehy

As everyone from ancient times till today knows, clerks and accountants think in a non-human fashion. They think like filing cabinets. This is not their fault. If they don't think that way their drawers will all get mixed up and they won't be able to provide the services their government, company or organisation requires. — Yuval Noah Harari

When energy speeds up there is no space for playing small, and nothing can remain hidden. — Gabrielle Bernstein

Oh," she said. "I wasn't going to ask, but then you never said anything about it, so I thought I'd ask."
"How about you?"
"Not me," said Odette. She had a poem about marriage. It began, Marriage is the death you want to die, and in front of audiences she never read it with much conviction. Usually she swung her foot back and forth through the whole thing. — Lorrie Moore

When a memory fails to appear, it seems as though the time when it was created did not really exist, and maybe that is true. Time itself is nothing; only the experience of it is something. When that dies, it assumes the form of a denial, the symbol of mortality, what you have already lost before you lose everything. When his friend had said something similar to his father, his response had been, If you had to retain everything, you'd explode. There's simply not enough space for it all. Forgetting is like medicine; you have to take it at the right time. — Cees Nooteboom

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue. — Graham Greene

You have to develop that peace of mind within yourself by which you can become the witness of yourself first. You should be able to witness yourself and see what are the things, which are putting you down. — Nirmala Srivastava

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved — Princess Diana

In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster. — Mark Twain

The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it. — Caitlin Moran

Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group of beings, on this planet? Why do I exist if I could have been without existence? — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz