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Shashi Tharoor

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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex...
UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
MARLEN HAUSHOFER Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?
T.C. BOYLE That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
J.D. SALINGER Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed ...
SUSAN CARTWRIGHT Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others ...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN What good is having any friends if you can't use them...
VIOLETA GARCIA A woman's reputation is her worth... IT is the way it is. You may hate me for saying so, but there i...
LIBBA BRAY I like myself better when I'm with you.
MITCH ALBOM Work for your satisfaction & which serves a cause.If you work only for applause,it will loose its pu...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA What is wrong with America? When we idolize false gods and other things rather than worshipping the ...
NORM TOMLINSON When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE The doctors with ailments not willing to take the treatment should be treated first. The doctors wit...
APURVA GAGLANI What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, a...
T.D. JAKES You run with time , it is in day or night has less important. If not run then time run away. You nee...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER I am too perfect... to be here with you...
DEYTH BANGER …If anything else, all I ever did was love you….
BETH FANTASKEY A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all, depending on...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the...
JOE HILL To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the i...
CONVERSATION WITH APIGEON I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The Legend of Zorro,
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a...
LISA KLEYPAS Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite...
MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF As a teacher, your job is to motivate your unmotivated student. This is how you shape the future
SOTONYE ANGA We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS Get out of your own way! Learn to work with yourself instead of against.
AKIROQ BROST A woman apologizing first in an argument to a man is like giving a freebie, which often has a big hi...
ANUJ SOMANY The day will last for sometime. But at night, when I am with you, it last forever.
IVANN RODRIGUEZ We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be...
MITCH ALBOM Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Time marches on...with or without your ass
DENNIS BARTON In Love I find myself.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE You create the flow, you are a leader, you go with the flow, you are a follower, if you are up again...
APURVA GAGLANI Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
TOM ROBBINS I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.
ERICA COOK The easiest thing on the life is to make question, but the difficulties one it’s to answer it.
IBNOULKHATIB YAHYA Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...
MARGARET ATWOOD If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and ...
NEILL BLOMKAMP She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...
E.M. FORSTER That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
HANNAH GADSBY The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
DAVID GERROLD It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart ar...
KAREN MARIE MONING The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
LAURIE ANDERSON I just never thought I'd get to see how beautiful you'd become
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT You're beautiful, too. I mean, you're hot,” I blurted out. “But I always knew you would be.” m...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. ...
EUGENE H. PETERSON You have to ignore risks, put your brain on hold and follow your instincts, even when your head insi...
DARREN SHAN Children are like water; they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid ...
NILESH RATHOD Someone is always there to love you no matter what happens in life. That person is you. Take a break...
STEVEN CUOCO She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defian...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Live with a mission; act with passion.
DEBASISH MRIDHA If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ...
LARRY MCMURTRY Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it ...
MITCH ALBOM Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with ...
MITCH ALBOM I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had al...
MICHELLE MCKINNEY HAMMOND If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you ...
LOU HOLTZ ...the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirm...
M. ROBERT MULHOLLAND JR. Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
JULIE KAGAWA

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