Quotes - Shounak (shounak023) (Calcutta, India) Showing 1-30 of 50

#1

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

4433 likes

#2

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

11039 likes

#3

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7229 likes

#4

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

7173 likes

#5

“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
― Leonardo DaVinci

245 likes

#6

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: loneliness

4293 likes

#7

“আমি যে তাকে ভালবাসি তা ওঁর রূপের জন্যও নয়, গুণের জন্যও নয়। ভাল না বেসে থাকতে পারি না বলে বাসি।”
― Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, গয়নার বাক্স

69 likes

#8

“দুটো শব্দ আছে, জানো! রমণীয় আর পরম। ওদের কাছে জীবন হল রমণীয়, আমাদের কাছে পরম।”
― Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

16 likes

#9

“ভালবাসলেই অ্যাকসেপ্ট করা যায় ঠিকই, কিন্ত অ্যাকসেপ্ট করলেই ভালবাসা যায় কি? - কোলাজ”
― Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

27 likes

#10

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16316 likes

#11

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92423 likes

#12

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43952 likes

#13

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47096 likes

#14

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

41050 likes

#15

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

34484 likes

#16

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

18241 likes

#17

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18878 likes

#18

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

16791 likes

#19

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

16228 likes

#20

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

12754 likes

#21

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

10430 likes

#22

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

9112 likes

#23

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6463 likes

#24

“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

tags: traveling

424 likes

#25

“They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

tags: fortune

297 likes

#26

“Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

tags: inspirational

237 likes

#27

“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

tags: inspirational

229 likes

#28

“Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

tags: advice, inspirational, life, mottos

109 likes

#29

“She has the gift of accepting her life.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

134 likes

#30

“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

128 likes