Shivakumara Swami Quotes

#1. No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Nicole Krauss

#2. I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Michael Caine

#3. What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

Chanakya

#4. Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. Its how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.

Alix Ohlin

#5. The future is a possibility; the present moment is the reality.

Debasish Mridha

#6. There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

Bob Dylan

#8. Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it

William V. Shannon

#9. In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...

Joseph Telushkin

#10. Or a pigeon, or a rat, or . . . I always double-check the leash.

Hilari Bell

#11. When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.

Max Greenfield

#12. If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Gore Vidal

#13. It was being published, even after his death, that brought Franz Kafka alive: otherwise he would have been just a man who got nowhere with women.

Clive James

#14. When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Thomas Jefferson