Top 15 Guru Dakshina Quotes
#1. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#2. I don't like crowds because I am small and fear being trampled. My ideal night out is a dinner party in my backyard with a group of like-minded friends whom I boss around in a gentle and loving way.
Amy Poehler
#3. The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military
Nnimmo Bassey
#4. Your master will bestow that experience shortly. Your body is not tuned just yet. As a small lamp cannot withstand excessive electrical voltage, so your nerves are unready for the cosmic current. If I gave you the infinite ecstasy right now, you would burn as if every cell were on fire.
Yogananda Paramhansa
#5. But they were wasting their time. Because Hassan stood with his arms wide open, smiling, waiting for the kite. And may God - if He exists, that is - strike me blind if the kite didn't just drop into his outstretched arms.
Khaled Hosseini
#6. To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.
Anthony Burgess
#7. If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
Isaac Barrow
#8. I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
Sam Raimi
#9. The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#10. What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
Alice Hoffman
#11. The most extreme of those who hold this opinion would go as far as declaring that, indeed, when no one and no thing is "looking" at or interacting with the moon in any way, it is not there.
Brian Greene
#12. I sometimes worried that the more instinctive forms of love were not so available to you. That easy maternal devotion, for instance, that seemed so natural in some women, and which, as we spoke of from time to time, was something you had to struggle to feel. [p. 189]
Sue Miller
#13. It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.
Christopher Bram
#14. You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#15. It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if he really imagined he could think the same thoughts now as then, and be interested in the same ideas and images as had interested him once ... not long ago.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky