Markandaya Quotes

#1. Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

John Selden

#2. No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

Janet Evanovich

#3. Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.

Kamala Markandaya

#4. Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.

Kamala Markandaya

#5. It's possible you've already let the right someone walk right past you.

Melody Carlson

#6. Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.

Kamala Markandaya

#7. Pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

Fernando Pessoa

#8. We are all lost souls until we are found.

Kate McGahan

#9. The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.

Dee Dee Ramone

#11. Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Peter McWilliams

#12. In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there.

Jonathan Coleman

#13. For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.

Kamala Markandaya

#14. You must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?

Kamala Markandaya

#15. She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Tanith Lee

#16. It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.

Kem Nunn

#17. Humanity can only improve as people improve. When you have improved your life, you can inspire those around you to want to improve their lives. Remember that a few in harmony with God's will are more powerful than multitudes out of harmony.

Peace Pilgrim

#18. If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

Nick Woodman

#19. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

#20. Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Confucius