Nirmalananda Swamy Quotes

#1. Forgive those who have hurt you.

Les Brown

#2. Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

Daniel H. Hill

#3. Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love ...

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Blaise Pascal

#5. Those who believe in climate change, as I do, I think it's also fair to say that they are more receptive to confirming evidence than disconfirming evidence. They happen to be right, but their motivations are in play also.

Cass Sunstein

#6. When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.

Jerome K. Jerome

#8. Nobody on earth is more righteous than a seventeen year old. (244)

Peter Heller

#9. The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

William Shakespeare

#11. Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

Paul Bloom

#12. Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. I know who you are. He stared into the darkness and wished those words away. Instead, they hung about him, unsaid and yet still ringing in his ears. She didn't think he was his father. He wanted her to know who he was. And he wanted to know her back.

Courtney Milan

#14. It's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.

Sonja Henie