Govind Sharma > Govind's Quotes

“Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.”
― Munshi Premchand

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
― Muhammad Ali

“A loving approach always brings joy and peace.”
― Sushma Agarwal

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“The Sword. Her name is Nightmare.”
A small shiver ran down Vall’s back, in the exact line where the blade now was. It was not a shiver of fear, but of understanding.
“And a nightmare, she shall be.”
― Holden R. Johnson, The Red Heir

“Open up your chakra
Because once that’s happened there’s no going back
Once you start to see what is really happening
Who the enemy you should be attackin’ is
So READ, READ, READ!
Stuck on the block, READ, READ!
Sittin’ in the box, READ, READ!
Don’t let them say what you can achieve
Cos' when people are enslaved
One of the first things they do is stop them reading
Cos’ it is well understood that intelligent people will take their freedom
Cos’ if we knew our power we would understand that we can’t be held down
If we knew our power, we would not elevate not one of these clowns
If we knew our power, we wouldn’t get arrogant when we get two pennies
If we knew our power, we would see what everybody sees, that we’re rich already!”
― Akala

“Man's most dangerous enemy is the one he was once closest to.”
― S. Hussain Zaidi, Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia

“Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
― Anthony Trollope

“Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Desire is a frightening thing.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Sanshirō

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“I could not put the Bible down. I literally could not. It felt as if my heart would stop beating, perhaps implode, if I put it down.”
― Nabeel Qureshi, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

“The mindset of a believer every time he opens the Bible must be the conviction that whatever the Bible says is true. We cannot trust our reason to determine what is true or false, right or wrong.”
― Michael P.V. Barrett, Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament

“I opened a book and in I strode.
Now nobody can find me.
I've left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.
I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
I've swallowed the magic potion.
I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
And dived in a bottomless ocean.
I opened a book and made some friends.
I shared their tears and laughter
And followed their road with its bumps and bends
To the happily ever after.
I finished my book and out I came.
The cloak can no longer hide me.
My chair and my house are just the same,
But I have a book inside me.”
― Julia Donaldson

“It is consoling that he who must judge us dwell in us to save us always from all of our miseries, and to pardon us.”
― Thérèse de Lisieux

“Eagles ignore weather reports because they can fly above any storm.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“All these bad experiences that we go through, they don't just disappear. We carry them our whole life trying to forget, escaping in habits, addictions, hate, toxic relationships. But what we don't know is that by doing so we let them stay alive. We water them like withered flowers and we hang onto them to justify our mistakes and failures.”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon

“As Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do.” Or as the Dalai Lama put it more recently: “There isn’t anything that isn’t made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings