Maha Periyava Quotes

#1. Pain itself, as a pure experience, is something different from the anxiety attached to it.

Linda Grant

#2. It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.

John Hughes

#3. New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

Michael Moore

#4. The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#5. A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Hosea Ballou

#6. I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

Erica Jong

#7. Giants bleed like everybody else.

Dan Groat

#8. If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.

Parker J. Palmer

#9. In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

John Bradshaw

#10. The corrupt man is the one who sins but does not repent, who sins and pretends to be Christian, and it is this double life that is scandalous. The corrupt man does not know humility, he does not consider himself in need of help, he leads a double life.

Pope Francis

#11. The trustiest rule of social disintegration: bars burn last.

Steve Aylett

#12. Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet

Mae Jemison

#13. It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

H.P. Lovecraft

#14. It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

William Morris Hunt

#15. Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction.

Donald A. Norman