Parameswaran Peppercorns Quotes

#1. It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.

Pope Francis

#2. Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

Friedrich Schiller

#3. Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Gary Keller

#4. I saw a Puffin
In the Bay of Baffin
Sittin on Nuffin
And it was Laffin.

Mervyn Peake

#5. Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#6. How could the Law of Retribution function properly when one party in a dispute was so wealthy and so powerful as to be virtually untouchable?

Reza Aslan

#7. I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

Ice Cube