Pragyan Pradhan > Pragyan's Quotes

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

“The future has an ancient heart.”
― Carlo Levi

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

“Over the river and through the wood
To grandfather's house we go”
― Lydia Maria Francis Child

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“There's an old, frequently-used definition of insanity, which is "performing the same action over and over, expecting different results."... Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. ...

...Other symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia are: Do you see things that aren't there? Such as a link between 9/11 and Iraq? Do you - do you feel things that you shouldn't be feeling, like a sense of accomplishment? Do you have trouble organizing words into a coherent sentence? Do you hear voices that aren't really there? Like, oh, I don't know, your imaginary friend, Jesus? Telling you to start a war in the Middle East.

Well, guess what? There are a large number of people out there also suffering from the same delusions, because there are Republicans, there are conservatives, and then there are the Bushies. This is the 29 percent of Americans who still think he's doing "a heck of a job, Whitey." And I don't believe that it's coincidence that almost the same number of Americans - 25 percent - told a recent pollster that they believe that this year - this year, 2007 - would bring the Second Coming of Christ!

I have a hunch these are the same people. Because, if you think that you're going to meet Jesus before they cancel "Ugly Betty," then you're used to doing things by faith. And if you have so much blind faith that you think this war is winnable, you're nuts and you shouldn't be allowed near a voting booth.”
― Bill Maher

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
― George Moore

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce