Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Everyone is open for consideration, ... I think we are going to look at people who would do a commendable job and honor the wishes of our residents. I know the administration will act quickly and council will do the same.
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What did we build it for? Was it all a dream? . . .Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam . . .And after a while they will fall to dust and rain;Or else we will tear them down with impatient hands;And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.
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I had a very difficult upbringing.
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We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
