Jagatpuri Quotes

#1. Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

Julian Fellowes

#2. What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

John Milton

#3. The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself, consisting of the soul's slow agonizing descent into a state of such loneliness and despair as to be finally indistinguishable from Hell.

William Shakespeare

#4. Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.

Jonathan Turley

#5. Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

Niklas Zennstrom

#6. The thought makes me reach back for my knife, my sharp, throat-cutting security blanket, as I look around.

Kendare Blake

#7. The past sucks and the future can be outright paralyzing, but we must push through those times and find what little happy moments there are in our short, short lives - Emilio

Emilio

#8. There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

Amy Bloom

#9. To be unbroken, what would that be?
If words that were spoken, had not shattered me

ZOEgirl

#10. The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

Terence McKenna

#11. My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house.

Jerry Della Femina

#12. There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Bertrand Russell

#13. I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

Harry S. Truman

#14. That annoying thing that tourists did, opening a feed into London's sea of blue plaques.

William Gibson