“Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.” MindMayTwoSelfSpiritualLawUsedCuttingIgnoranceKnives Author:Sri Yukteswar Giri
“Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.” IfsWritingDesireUnderstandingResultsStudyIntellectualSacredSatisfactionRealizationVanityInwardVocabularyBeneficial Author:Sri Yukteswar Giri
“Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.” PeopleRunningGamesMachinesSmoothChef Author:Toby Young
“People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.” PeopleThinkingWorldEndsThreeLondonMilesManhattanNew YorkersCenter Of The World Author:Toby Young
“I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.” BelieveHumansMadeWarShowsPainEffortPovertyAcceptanceArgumentTreatsSacredSpeciesDon't BelieveHuman LifeAbortionLifelongFamineEpidemicsSanctitySanctity Of LifePro AbortionPro Choice Abortion Author:Caitlin Moran
“I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.” ReadingEconomicProudFeministChinaSpendingAssRisingExaggerationSuperpowerRise Of China Author:Caitlin Moran
“When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can’t help but think, You just haven’t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.” ThinkingI CanEnoughHelpingTalkingTakenHavensFields Author:Caitlin Moran
“If I'm going to spunk £500 on a pair of designer shoes, it's going to be a pair that I can a) dance to 'Bad Romance' in and b) will allow me to run away from a murderer, should one suddenly decide to give chase.” IfsGivingShouldI CanRunningAbleRomanceAsksShoesDesignerPairsRunning AwayMinimumMurdererFootwearSpunkDesigner Shoes Author:Caitlin Moran
“I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'” KnowsWorldLooksGirlStarsPoorPowerfulSuccessfulRichPopsLovelyVideoMy GirlPop StarsPantiesReally PowerfulCardigans Author:Caitlin Moran
“You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise” IfsThinkingMatterParadiseScrewsScrew Ups Author:Caitlin Moran