losing ground....

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

-Adlai E. Stevenson

silence....

Silence is a source of great strength.

- Lao Tzu

compromise...

Don't compromise yourself. you are all you've got.

- Janis Joplin

hell...

If you are going through hell, keep going.

- Sir Winston Churchill

spring...

i want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

- Pablo Neruda

love...

Love is so short, forgetting so long.

- Pablo Neruda

car windows...

Never have more children than you have car windows.

- Erma Bombeck

glamorous...

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

- Hedy Lamarr

beliefs...

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

-Bertrand Russell

rational.....

If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle

- Rita Mae Brown

self-delusion.....one of my fav.....

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scale.

- Paul Sweeney

aeroplane travel....

Aeroplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

- Al Gore

image...

I can't die. It would wreck my image.

- Jack Lalanne

inner peace...

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

- Bob Geldof

first & last love...

Our first and last love is....Self-Love.

- Christian Nevell Bovee

love...

Love isn't love 'Til you give it away.

- Oscar Hammerstein

life...

Into each life some rain must fall.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

control....

Where we can buy control, we like to buy control.

- Arun Sarin, CEO Vodafone

circumstances....

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

- James Allen

god...

Everyone has the same god; only people differ.

- Anton Chekov

lost....

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

life...

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

- Tom Stoppard

seduce...

Seduce my mind and you can have my body.

- unknown

horse...

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

- Thomas Fuller

religion...

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

- Naguib Mahfouz

Fashion

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

- Victor Hugo

law...

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

- Pluto

statistics....

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

-Steven Wright

knowing friends...

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

-W. Somerset Mougham

sense....

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.

- Edward Albee

judge....

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

- The Bible

decide....

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

- Napolean Bonaparte

peace...

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

- John Lennon

idiot...

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

- John Lennon

guitar...

Any problem you can't solve with a good guitar, is either, unsolvable or isn't a problem.

friends....

It is the friends you can call up at four in the morning that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich

opinion....

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

- Franklin P Jones

charming people....

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

- Cyril Connolly

SMS...

I don't think cellphone can ever give the same pleasure that sex gives me. However, when it comes to SMS, it sure gets undivided attention, which even my boyfriend doesn't.

- Yana gupta

concentration...

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and i would'nt look up. Well, maybe once.

- Isaac Asimov

eye for an eye...

An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.

- Gandhi

statistic...

One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic.

- Stalin

enemies...

A good man has few enemies. A ruthless man has none

part of life...

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.


-Brooke Shields

bold....

Fortune favours the bold.

- Virgil

eat my shorts...

Eat my shorts!!!

- Bart Simpson

right to say...

Je désapprouve ce que vous dites, mais je défendrai à la mort votre droit à le dire.

-Voltaire

(I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.)

reorganising...

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organising, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

-Charlton Ogburn Jr.

fury...

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

-William Congreve

upgrade

For some people, defamation of character is an upgrade.

marriage...

I like marriage. The idea.

-Toni Morrison

ghalib...

Be-dar-o-deewar sa ik ghar banana chaahiye,
Koi hamsaaya na ho, paasban koi na ho

-Mirza Ghalib

(Make me a home with no doors or walls / I would have no companion; nor the need of a sentry)

H1B

It makes no sense to say to a young scientist from India, you can't come to America to help this compnay develop technologies that help us deal with our problems.

- George Bush Jr. (backing more H1B's for Indians)

sense.....

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.

- Clive James

changing a man.....

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

-Natalie Wood

praise...

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

- Samuel Johnson

having children.....

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

-Samuel Butler

reality...

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein

sense of humour...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

-Francis Bacon

black/white....

So just because it's Black, don't mean it's cool. And just because it's White don't mean it's evil. The real tragedy is that there are some ignorant brothers out here. That's why I'm not on this all-White or all Black shit. I'm on this all-real or all fake shit with people, whatever color you are. Because niggaz will do you. I mean, there's some [foul] niggaz out there [in the streets]; the same niggaz that did Malcolm X, the same niggaz that did Jesus Christ- every brother ain't a brother. They will do you.

- 2Pac

love hurts...

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

- Mother Teresa

happy?...

Is that gun in you pocket or are you just happy to see me?
- Mae West

walking....

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is....

-Ellen DeGeneres

idealist...

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

- Carl Sandburg

guards....

Who is to guard the guards themselves?
- Juvenal

questions...

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber

shadow...

Between the idea / And the reality......Falls the shadow.

-T S Eliot

being maried....

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

- Rita Rudner

happiness...

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown

Fake.....a classic....

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
- Sharon Stone

Imagine

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
-John Lennon

time...

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do....
- Bill Waterson

longevity...

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
- Gabriel Heatter, American journalist

Company Policy...

To err is human, to forgive is not company policy....

Right...

The time is always right to do what is right
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life...

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh....

Achieve...

WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING, ALL THE UNIVERSE CONSPIRES IN HELPING YOU TO ACHIEVE IT.
- PAUL COELHO

Cogito, ergo sum...

"cogito, ergo sum" (traditionally translated as "I think, therefore i am)

Man...

Between 20-30 if a man lives right, it’s twice in the morning and twice at night.
Between 30-40 if a man lives right, he misses a morning and sometimes a night.
Between 40-50, it’s just now and then.
Between 50-60, Heaven knows when.
When he is 60, he is slightly declined. But don’t let that kid you, it is still on his mind.’

Marriage...

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence....

Hate....

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art.
- Ogden Nash

Change...

Your must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi