Ishieta Chopra > Ishieta's Quotes

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The most beautiful sea
hasn't been crossed yet.
The most beautiful child
hasn't grown up yet.
Our most beautiful days
we haven't seen yet.
And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you
I haven't said yet...”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“I am convinced that the world’s liberals are to blame for the rise of conservatives. Liberals were meant to uphold values such as freedom of speech, gender equality, free choice in worship and freedom of sexual orientation. But they looked the other way when it came to Islamic societies that stoned and genitally mutilated their women, killed homosexuals, permitted wife beating, enforced the hijab, allowed marriage of minor girls, killed apostates and instituted laws against blasphemy. It was these double standards of liberals that made ordinary people look for solutions from the right.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, Keepers of the Kalachakra

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“All of us identify who we are in contrast with who we are not, and the ‘who we are not’ changes all the time.”
― Wendy Doniger, On Hinduism

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.”
― William Bliss

“The winds of change are a blowin’.”
― Sarah Noffke, The New Elite

“interests in a spin off series about Fairy Godmother College?”
― Sarah Noffke, The New Elite

“My name is Pippo Basu Roy,”
― Aniesha Brahma, The Backyard Tales

“For all the creatures out there, big and small, that save this world with their goodness.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Phenomenal Faraday

“Lead from Every Seat you sit in”
― Dorothy Enriquez

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso