Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen


Sukhraj S. Dhillon

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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
The brain abhors discrepancies.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only...
PEARL S. BUCK
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. MERWIN
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. MERWIN
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the wh...
W. S. MERWIN
I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execu...
ULYSSES S. GRANT
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only ...
ULYSSES S. GRANT
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your w...
ULYSSES S. GRANT
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, a...
ULYSSES S. GRANT
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in t...
ULYSSES S. GRANT
Let us have peace.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't...
ULYSSES S. GRANT
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
ULYSSES S. GRANT
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PRITCHETT
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. PRITCHETT
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. NAIPAUL
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...
V. S. NAIPAUL
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. NAIPAUL
I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
V. S. NAIPAUL
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people&#...
V. S. NAIPAUL
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
V. S. NAIPAUL
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situatio...
V. S. NAIPAUL
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that i...
V. S. NAIPAUL