Atithi Swagat Quotes

#1. The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Upon that foreign soil he chose
Died he! For ever laid
Low, in the kindly shade,
He left behind no tearless grief,
No measured mourning, dull and brief,
These eyes are wet
With weeping yet,
Nor know I how to find relief."

Antigone

Sophocles

#3. Everyone can guess what 'Corn Flakes' tastes like, even if you've never had them. But what, pray tell, does 'High School Musical' or 'Spider-Man' cereal possibly taste like? In this late era, we have reached the ultimate deracination between product image and what actually sits on our spoon.

Paul Di Filippo

#4. People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.

Thomas Sowell

#5. From Nic's point of view, her older sister had been a primer on how not to live her life.

Gabrielle Zevin

#6. There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

Richard Hofstadter

#7. Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. Goals determine what you're going to be.

Julius Erving

#9. I'm an engineer," Gareth said, spitting out the word so violently it gave him a degree of spin. "Did eight years on Tycho Station! I'm not going to get used like a fucking technician.

James S.A. Corey

#10. Reading is a way of closing out the real world and losing yourself in a new one. This is also called "active meditation" - a state of mind that you attempt to reach to rid yourself of tension and make yourself feel better.

Henry Mckinnon

#11. I am sorry for what has happened and I know that I need some help.

Susan Smith

#12. Subjective terms, you are consciousness itself - you are not the next, evanescent image or string of words that appears in your mind. Not seeing it arise, however, the next thought will seem to become what you are.

Sam Harris

#13. His colleagues learned to appreciate him for it. "When people don't talk so much they don't dish out the crap either," one of his older workmates said to him one afternoon down on the track. And Ove nodded. Some got it and some didn't. There

Fredrik Backman