Vo Chidambaram Pillai Quotes

#1. My grandmother, Angela, was the Fox family matriarch. She was magnetic but also wicked. She had this huge life force and was great fun, but she would play each member of the family off against each other, which could make for extremely dramatic Christmases.

Emilia Fox

#2. I've made mistakes, been broken by evil, and wished fervently for my life to be taken from me. The past will never change. But my imperfect past brought me here, and it's a remarkable place to be. All I've suffered, all you have suffered, Kathryn, has not made us weak. It has made us wise.

Kirsten Beyer

#3. It takes people some time to appreciate that their greater resources are often the people they know.

Laurie Beth Jones

#4. You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.

Yvon Chouinard

#5. I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know what, looking back that was stupid of me not going there.

Marcel Dionne

#6. Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.

Stephen Covey

#7. There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter ... That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters ...

Ayn Rand

#8. Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

Thomas Carlyle

#9. Moreover, something is or seems That touches me with mystic gleams, Like glimpses of forgotten dreams - "Of something felt, like something here; Of something done, I know not where; Such as no language may declare."[228]

William James

#10. Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access.

Marilyn Frye

#11. One reads not for information, but inspiration.

Wayne Teasdale

#12. Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

Henry Adams

#13. ...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions.

Jamil Ahmad