Pandita Ramabai Quotes

#1. A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#2. A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.

Pandita Ramabai

#3. Night coaxed out the stars, my jailers.

Roshani Chokshi

#4. They were men like other young men, unknown to themselves. So much that lay within them they were now travelling to meet.

Richard Flanagan

#5. People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.

Pandita Ramabai

#6. Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

John Donne

#7. We should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

Ann Bridge

#8. I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ.

Pandita Ramabai

#9. At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

Gaston Bachelard

#10. I was a mother's boy.

Don Rickles

#11. I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.

Nicholas Stoller

#12. I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.

Ma Jian

#13. How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.

Lewis Carroll

#14. Well, I could never lie to you, Thor. I'm actually the All-Mother's undercover operative in the cause of niceness and puppies, and I'm here on a top-secret spy-type thingie. Shh! Don't tell anyone.

Al Ewing

#15. If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

Creed Bratton

#16. As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.

Ted Leo

#17. The faithful dog is kicked, and no matter how the spider weaves, he is never loved.

George R R Martin

#18. We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.

Lise Deharme