"I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla."

-- Mira Nair

#Hangover Quotes #School Quotes #Years Quotes

“You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.”
“The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?”
“For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.”

Source : Martin Niemöller (1937). “Here stand I!”
“How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way?”
“I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.”
“I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.”
“The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.”

Source : James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.9, MIT Press
“The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.”

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