Quotes About Fakirs

#1. You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

Florence Nightingale

#2. The fakirs always throng the sea-shore
To find meaning in the chaos
And then they too become melancholy
Feeling nothing but their naked toes.

Avijeet Das

#3. In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others

Jose Saramago

#4. We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.

Shashi Tharoor

#5. I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.

Robert Palmer

#6. But what do I know of the minds of these high Christians who say one thing and do another and then refer to their religion as the justification? I

Jacqueline Park

#7. Her broken heart had mended and then set like a bone; it was a tougher and knit together. She liked it that way.

Jayne Blue

#8. And now suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been italicized.

Cora Carmack

#9. What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Mann

#10. Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.

Andy Paula

#11. I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#12. Dementia was like a truth serum.

Amy Tan

#13. Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

Gilbert Sorrentino

#14. The archetypal dwelling of the American frontier, the log cabin, was in fact a Scots development, if not invention. The word itself, cabine, meant any sort of rude enclosure or hut, made of stone and dirt in Scotland, or sod and mud in Ireland.

Arthur Herman