Sada W. > Sada's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.”
― Amish Tripathi

“A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha

“Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they have sunk.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear
obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite
may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but
perception, viewed through various prisms of context.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha

“I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras

“Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“Lord Manu had said it's not people who are evil. True evil exists beyond them. It attracts people. It causes confusion amongst its enemies. But Evil in itself is too big to be confined to to just a few.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“Truth is one, though

the sages

know it as many .

God is one, though

different

religions

approach

Him differently

Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus

or any other form of God that you believe

in .

Our paths may be different.

Our destination

is the same.”
― Amish Tripathi

“People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting”
― Amish Tripathi

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me illustrate. Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc. When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.
An army and navy represent the people's toys.”
― Emma Goldman

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.”
― Camille Paglia

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Ladies of the Corridor