"All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us."

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Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1924). “The Dance of ?iva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture”, p.109, Courier Corporation

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#Hands Quotes #Elude Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“The way I see it Bill Elliott is just another way of saying fast”
“Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food should be forbidden! 'The steaks at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas!' And they are always afloat in grease. Next morning you are served a smaller steak, which serves as a platform for two fried eggs ... all of this afloat in the same grease! 'Chicken, you say? You bet! Comin' up!' Same grease! They are right. Comin' up! For hours afterwards. I couldn't believe the crust of an apple pie! Same grease!”
“You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.”
“The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.”
“Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.”

Source : "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.
“I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.”
“Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.”

Source : "'Even if you straighten your hair, you will never be white' - Zuma". Jacob Zuma's controversial speech in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, archive.sowetanlive.co.za. December 27, 2012.
“But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.”

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