Govani Mani Quotes

#1. For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

James G. Frazer

#2. A man who can't stay a bit shouldn't approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests.

Stephen King

#3. Dreams are fuel for creation.

Joseph Hunt

#4. Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

Ezra Koenig

#5. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Roger L'Estrange

#6. His eyes are the perfect shade of cobalt, blue like a blossoming bruise, clear and deep and decided.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. Beauty is a free spirit and will not be trapped within the grid of intentionality.

John O'Donohue

#8. A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Jonathan Swift

#9. Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Roger Von Oech

#10. There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.

Simone Weil