Sir John Woodroffe Quotes

#1. Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

Bertrand Piccard

#2. What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#3. Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

Sir John Woodroffe

#4. An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.

Sir John Woodroffe

#5. A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound ... a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.

Sir John Woodroffe

#6. A woman's weapon is her tongue.

Anthony Trollope

#7. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. Once your excuses are gone, you will simply have to settle for being awesome!

Lorii Myers

#10. Be strong. Live the gospel faithfully even if others around you don't live it at all.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#11. You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

Laura Nyro

#12. You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. At once they were absolutely silenced, for money talks in an eloquent voice. Deliberately

Max Brand

#14. You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.

Cassandra Clare

#15. write a history, we must know more than mere facts. Human nature, viewed under an introduction of extended experience, is the best help to the criticism of human history.

Homer

#16. She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.

Crystal Woods

#17. It is crucial for everyone in society--but especially crucial for teachers, parents, and politicians--to realize that social freedom and personal autonomy depend on well-stocked imaginations, for freedom and autonomy depend on having and making choices.

Marshall Gregory