"I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness."

-- Jairam Ramesh

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...”

Source : Richard Wilbur, “A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the VILLa Sciarra”
“I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong ...”

Source : "Pete Doherty on heroin, life in Paris and his new film". Interview with Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2012.
“In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible College at the time. I remember hearing the gospel in Sunday School and I talked to my Mom about it one night before bed. It was clear to me that I was a sinner and I was not going to heaven if I died without accepting Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for me. I was brought to Christ out of fear of going to hell. I didn't want to go there if I died and there was only one other choice in my mind as a 4 year old. I wanted to go to heaven. It was and is that simple.”
“Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”
“A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.”
“We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive us in terms of controlling attention, exploiting the assumptions we make when we do and don't notice a change in our environment. There is an enormous amount of really detailed instruction on how to perform magic. People are always blown away by how detailed a description you'll have.”
“There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.”

You may also like:

A. K. Antony
Indian Politician
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Indian Politician
Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India
P. Chidambaram
Indian Politician
Rahul Gandhi
Indian Political leader
Salman Khurshid
Indian Politician
Sonia Gandhi
President of Indian National Congress
Sushilkumar Shinde
Indian Politician
Veerappa Moily
Politician