Yalamanchili Shankar Quotes & Sayings

No free man needs a God; but was I free? — Vladimir Nabokov

I have already thought it over,' said Rubashov. 'I reject your proposition. Logically, you may be right. But I have had enough of this kind of logic. I am tired and I don't want to play this game anymore. Be kind enough to have me taken back to my cell. — Arthur Koestler

To speak truthfully is to accurately represent one's beliefs. But candor offers no assurance that one's beliefs about the world are true. — Sam Harris

But, as in the rest of Galilee, the profits firm this increase in the means of production disproportionately benefited the large landowners and moneylenders who resided outside Capernaum: the wealthy priests in Judea and new urban elite in Sepphoris and Tiberias. The majority of Capernaum's residents had been left behind by the new Galilean economy. It would be these people whom Jesus would specifically target - those who found themselves cast to the fingers of society, whose lives had been disrupted by the rapid social and economic shifts taking place throughout Galilee. — Reza Aslan

If you are that patient, your mind is more settled, and what you do will be more perfect. If you are unsettled and anxious to get the result, you are already disturbed; nothing done with that disturbed mind will have quality. So, it is not only how long you practice, but with what patience, what earnestness and what quality also. — Swami Satchidananda

Shortly after his launch into eternity, Bonepenney's room at the inn is rifled by a maiden fair whose name I dare not utter aloud but who now sits demurely before me ... — Alan Bradley

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. — Alex Campbell

My name's Mapo," the boy says. "Mesa Jar Jar. — Chuck Wendig

Determined spirit is unstoppable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost. — Mae West

There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end. — Olivia Newton-John

Something like making the NIT would have been a great way to showcase the season we had. — Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Then comes the left jab again. A converted southpaw? It has something of the shift of locus which comes from making love to a brunette when she is wearing a blond wig. — Norman Mailer