Wishes Being Useless Quotes & Sayings

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. — Plato

Money fascinates me... It has the power to make and break nations... It determines a person's quality of life and limits us as a race what we're capable of accomplishing, yet it has no true value other than what we've placed on it. It's a man-made concept, yet it holds us back, keeps us from achieving well, everything. Peace. Equality. Just think of the scientific discoveries we've had to forgo because of a lack of funding. And it's all made up. none of it's real. — S.L. Madden

The Mahabharata was not composed with the aim of describing a battle. The description of the battle serves only as a pretext. — Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes the women much resent the men who call for war and have been known to rush upon them and beat them severely about the head and shoulders. — Peter Matthiessen

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.' — Mindy Kaling