Nirad Quotes

#1. In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Charles Spurgeon

#2. Go to Idris. You're safer there, but don't be trusting, and don't let your guard down. I need you to live.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

#4. I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight

Nirad C. Chaudhuri

#5. PHAEDRE: You're in pain. I adore you.

Sarah Kane

#6. When society is ful of nonsense like ours, when the government makes decisions people don't approve of and tells you that you have voted for those same decisions, sooner or later there will be a revolution.

Cameron Jace

#7. When I was four years old I watched the movie every day. I was totally obsessed.

Ellen Marlow

#8. There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

John Updike

#9. My main competitor is myself.

Evgeni Plushenko

#10. We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.

Daniel Suarez

#11. Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all.

Reed Mullin

#12. Yolandi, the central character in the book "All My Puny Sorrows" says that "the core of the argument for it [assisted suicide] is maximizing individual autonomy and minimizing human suffering" (p. 222).

Miriam Toews

#13. Do you press the "pause" button - the "until" button in life by saying "I can't be happy until ... "? All this accomplishes is a delay in your entry into your innate state of happiness, which is independent of outer circumstances. So press the "play" button and rejoice in the now-ness of the moment!

Michael Beckwith

#14. A community is like the ones who govern it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

Laura Dern

#16. Lust and the English make no sense to me.

Paul Monette