Nagesh Belludi

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time—but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
—Charles Erwin Wilson (American Businessperson)

You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
—Yuval Noah Harari (Israeli Historian)

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
—Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian Poet)

There is a difference between desire and desperation.
—Tyra Banks (American Supermodel)

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
—Franz Boas (American Anthropologist)

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
—Barbara De Angelis (American Psychologist)

Justice is incidental to law and order.
—J. Edgar Hoover (American Government Official)

The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

No race can prosper ’til it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling the field, as in writing a poem.
—Booker T. Washington (African-American Educationist)

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
—H. L. Mencken (American Journalist, Literary Critic)

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
—E. O. Wilson (American Sociobiologist)

A beautiful young lady is an act of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
—Louis Nizer (American Lawyer, Author)

A tyrannical sultan is better than constant anarchy.
—Egyptian Proverb

Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.
—Albert Memmi (Tunisian Novelist)

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable byproduct of all virtuous endeavor.
—Reinhold Niebuhr (American Theologian)

The dog in the kennel barks at his fleas; the dog that hunts does not feel them.
—Chinese Proverb

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
—Konstantin Stanislavski (Russian Actor)

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
—Matthew Prior (English Poet, Diplomat)

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
—E. F. Benson (English Novelist, Biographer)

You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.
—John W. Gardner (American Activist)

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists … in the loved one, perfection.
—Sidney Poitier (American Actor, Film Director)

Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
—Frederick Buechner (American Writer, Theologian)

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
—John Bunyan (English Writer, Preacher)

Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.
—Jane Goodall (British Ethologist)

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
—Marion Milner (‘Joanna Field’) (British Psychoanalyst)

One should have the greatest simplicity of physical habits combined with the largest flexibility. How hard the combination is to attain, and yet how important to a life at once sane and full! It is the same problem present everywhere in living—the problem of unstable equilibrium—of an adjustment that is ever in process and never crystallized.
—Edward Howard Griggs (American Lecturer, Educator)

Let none be rich, and Poverty
Would not be thought so great a Misery.
Our discontent is from comparison;
Were better states unseen, each man would like his own.
—John Norris (British Priest, Philosopher)

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
—Constance Rourke (American Historian)

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.
—Curtis L. Carlson (American Businessman)

Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would be, in my cloud, myself a rainbow—a minister to others’ joy. My patience will be perfect when it can work in the vineyard.
—George Matheson (Scottish Theologian)

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
—Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek Novelist, Statesman)

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can’t keep that which belongs to someone else.
—Edgar Cayce (American Faith Healer)

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
—Steven Weinberg (American Physicist)

It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
—Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher)

There is no human nature that is not good. Therefore there is no innate knowledge that is not good. Innate knowledge is the equilibrium before the feelings are aroused. It is the state of broadness and extreme impartiality. It is the original substance that is absolutely quiet and inactive. And it is possessed by all men.
—Wang Yangming (Chinese Philosopher)

For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.
—Ann Patchett (American Novelist)

The absent are always to blame.
—Hebrew Proverb

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
—A. C. Benson (English Essayist)