Age Quotes - Page 190

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

All language is political.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.