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How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness


Rohinton Mistry

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ROHINTON MISTRY And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.
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ROHINTON MISTRY Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
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ROHINTON MISTRY You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have t...
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ROHINTON MISTRY Multilate. Ha Ha Ha,' said Nusswan, avuncular and willing to pretend it was a clever joke. 'Its all ...
ROHINTON MISTRY But it was an unrefrigerated world. And everything ended badly.
ROHINTON MISTRY The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake
ROHINTON MISTRY democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion
ROHINTON MISTRY The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and...
ROHINTON MISTRY I've done lots of jobs. Right now, I'm a hair collector."

"That's good", said Ishvar tent...
ROHINTON MISTRY Maneck studied beggermaster's excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did human do...
ROHINTON MISTRY Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.
ROHINTON MISTRY Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it w...
ROHINTON MISTRY Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness ...
ROHINTON MISTRY If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary n...
ROHINTON MISTRY What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unf...
ROHINTON MISTRY لماذا يتصرف النَّاس على هذا النحو بمشاعرهم؟ سواء أكانت...
ROHINTON MISTRY بالرغم من كل شيء، ليست حياتنا سوى سلسلة من الحوادث، سلس...
ROHINTON MISTRY Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure....
ROHINTON MISTRY There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.
ROHINTON MISTRY …God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and...
ROHINTON MISTRY إنه ذهب بعيدًا. عندما تبتعد إلى هذا الحدّ، تتغيّر. المس�...
ROHINTON MISTRY What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a...
ROHINTON MISTRY If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as on...
ROHINTON MISTRY ...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there wil...
ROHINTON MISTRY Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life
One day you must tell...
ROHINTON MISTRY After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string o...
ROHINTON MISTRY But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. M...
ROHINTON MISTRY ...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance ...
ROHINTON MISTRY The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.
ROHINTON MISTRY The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.'

'Good...
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ROHINTON MISTRY The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for some...
ROHINTON MISTRY She always seemed to be disoriented and was in a keep away area. She seemed starved for attention an...
JENNIFER WILLIS There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; ...
MOTHER THERESA I'm starved." -Juli
"How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth
LYNSAY SANDS We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for m...
C.S. LEWIS How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in ret...
KENTETSU TAKAMORI There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordin...
THOMAS J. STANLEY Na jménu nezáleží. Ghetto je ze dvou měst vždy to menší.
(Architektura pro mistry ORDO ...
PETR STANčíK Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The world is starved for spiritual food.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Starved
JOHN LANDGRAF Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
RICHARD LOUV But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an ef...
LEO TOLSTOY Since pursuing my dreams, I've starved, I've lived and I've starved.
HEATHER WOLF We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
UNKNOWN We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
JOHN NAISBITT I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
ANN VOSKAMP We were starved for information about what was going on.
DINESH WAGLE How many have been frozen gored starved or blown apart by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or ...
SAIOM SHRIVER Even if the refineries are OK, they could be starved of their imports.
JAMAL QURESHI As shoppers become increasingly time-starved, they are looking to shop any time, anywhere.
HARVEY SEEGERS As shoppers become increasingly time starved, they are looking to shop any time, anywhere.
HARVEY SEEGERS For ordinary humans, someone crazy is highlighting, for ordinary crazy, someone human is highlightin...
DANISH BARAKI But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your hear...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left ...
RON RASH People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
BEN CARSON Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I never starved myself.
TATJANA PATITZ It seemed like an ordinary day, but little did I know that this wasn’t going to be a normal ballet...
SARAH TODD HAMMER You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
ALEISTER CROWLEY Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
DAVID BRIN How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.
GEORGE ELLISTON Kindness and compassion go hand in hand. One who mistakes them as a weakness is far less than the or...
MAICHEE SUMMER The man who doesn’t know how to confer a kindness has not the right to ask any for himself.
VIKRANT PARSAI Acts of Kindness:
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact o...
ROY T. BENNETT How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
CECELIA AHERN As a photographer you have a deep love for light, life and yourself. You know that the eyes of love ...
MARIUS VIETH No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
AESOP No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
AESOP They seemed too arrogant. They seemed like they were here to conquer.
JISOO LEE They've been in situations like this before, and you could tell how poised they were coming down in ...
BRYAN SCOTT Ordinary people can do extra ordinary things when they create opportunity towards their passion
SIVAPRAKASH SIDHU My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they enc...
BRIAN BLESSED (Watching her) was a little like watching water lilies; rather more like smelling a dinner he was no...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved t...
NAT KING COLE How beautiful a woman can be if kindness is her true beauty.
DEBASISH MRIDHA For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
G. WILLOW WILSON I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek...
JIM CRACE I like how the players come through and acknowledge us. They love it. (Friday), it seemed like the i...
DAVE LEONARD Kindness heals, kindness saves, kindness does, Kindness never asks why.
JOHN B. BEJO I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Sma...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.
LEIGH BARDUGO When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a fu...
MARK TWAIN Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Kindness is Love for Unknown.
GOLLAPALLI NITHIN KUMAR Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
JOSEPH JOUBERT We are not living in a tech starved world, so how do we build the next biggest thing? One idea at a ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed...
RANSOM RIGGS Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose...
GEORGE SAND Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to los...
GEORGE SAND

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