Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
Quotes to Explore
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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You have good days and bad days.
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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For every Tesla or Uber, there's a Valeant Pharmaceuticals or Theranos - two story stocks that seduced an astounding array of prominent investors and supporters based on stories that did turn out to be too good to be true.
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I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it done. Just because you're African American, you still can touch the masses. And that's my goal. I won't stop until that goal is continued to push it hard to the world that we are the universal person as well.
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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.
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My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
