Escritas — Poems List

Peter Ustinov

I'm convinced there's a small

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

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Manisha Koirala

I won't do decorative roles

I won't do decorative roles even if they are a part of hit films.

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Mahatma Gandhi

In the attitude of silence

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

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Frank Muir

Strategy is buying a bottle

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

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Peter Ustinov

I was irrevocably betrothed to

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.

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Osho

Don't say this is good

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

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Charles H. Duell

Everything that can be invented

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

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Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

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Osho

Nature has come to a

Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.

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Peter Ustinov

The point of living and

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

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Bob Bennett

Water generally flows downhill in

Water generally flows downhill in this area.

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Kahlil Gibran

I have learnt silence from

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

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Osho

Remain in wonder if you

Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you.

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Peter Ustinov

If the world should blow

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

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Thomas Szasz

Formerly, when religion was strong

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

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John Blasik

It was mentioned on CNN

It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.

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Osho

You say that in heaven

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

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Peter Ustinov

Laughter would be bereaved if

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

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Jean Baptiste Lacoraire

The affections are like lightning;

The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen

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Marge Piercy

[Long hair] is considered bohemian,

[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

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W. T. Ussery

Numbers are essential, but not

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

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Osho

My whole teaching consists of

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

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Samuel Johnson

I would rather see the

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

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William Congreve

Music has charms to soothe

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast

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