Presidium Gem Quotes

#1. Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

#2. Energy security based on clean & reliable sources is essential for India's future. Nuclear energy has a key role in India's energy strategy.

Narendra Modi

#3. The general never regretted his early marriage, or regarded it as a foolish youthful escapade; and he so respected and feared his wife that he was very near loving her.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Perhaps when we shrink down to almost nothing, we will at last find one another. Life is, after all, very difficult. Most of us die here simply because we forget to breathe.

Paul Auster

#5. Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#6. I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.)
for:
the "Work" by which (it is said) we emerge from the great crises (love, grief) cannot be liquidated hastily: for me, it is accomplished only in and by writing.

Roland Barthes

#7. When they bring the drama, get silent, don't react ... and watch what happens (not to you, but those who habitually thrive on your 'willing' participation).

T.F. Hodge

#8. The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

Dorothy Thompson

#9. Aim high, ladies, aim high. If you can afford the cream of the crop, why not indulge?

Harper Miller

#10. Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment ...

Alyson Noel

#11. Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened.

Laurence Moore