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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Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
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Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
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Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
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As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
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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.
