Gregory David Roberts quote: "The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave."

The Indians are the Italians of Asia", Didier pronounced with a sage and mischievous grin. "It can b...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is ...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our live...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime s...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like th...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some tr...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

The clue to everything a man should love and fear in her was there right from the start in the ironi...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, bu...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living ins...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. B...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was d...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my ...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is lik...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Fanaticism is the opposite of love. A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he ha...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choice...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

What is it?" she asked.
"I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness o...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

The source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven's stars, sure. And one good t...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater l...
DAVID GREGORY

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ...
DAVID GREGORY

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.
DAVID GREGORY

You're totally ducking and weaving.
DAVID GREGORY

Scott, that's not the answer to the question. Come on. You're totally ducking and weaving here.
DAVID GREGORY

On Sundays, I'm up at five and in the office by six. After the show, around midday, I flip the s...
DAVID GREGORY

This partial strike is a very smart move by the workers, as it places a great deal of pressure on th...
DAVID GREGORY

I think she is doing a fantastic job at trying to drag the chemical industry into the 21st century, ...
DAVID GREGORY

There's been an attempt to put reporters on the spot and question the motivation of reporters. It is...
DAVID GREGORY

Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras.
DAVID GREGORY

I'll calm down when I feel like calming down. You answer the question.
DAVID GREGORY

A lot of employers would say it is too easy at the moment for unions to be able to put themselves in...
DAVID GREGORY

So what we're involved in here is a trade-off, and the value of the trade-off depends on how much yo...
DAVID GREGORY

Offensively, we have to move the football on them. We haven't in the last few years. And that will b...
DAVID GREGORY

They are two of their key players,
DAVID GREGORY

It does not seem that much different, ... it doesn't look like a few boys dotted about a number of g...
DAVID GREGORY

While you can be permanently replaced, you technically can't be fired. The strikers have the first o...
DAVID GREGORY

This gives all of the opportunities now to the companies and to the replacement workers, and it make...
DAVID GREGORY

For American workers, it's an unrelentingly grim scenario,
DAVID GREGORY

For American workers, it's an unrelentingly grim scenario.
DAVID GREGORY

I've never seen anything like this. We are really in new territory. Union militancy and resolve was ...
DAVID GREGORY

This was basically a vote of no confidence for Roger Toussaint. It undermines his credibility back a...
DAVID GREGORY

The guy in the subway, the rider, wants some sense of resolution. If this stays in limbo much longer...
DAVID GREGORY

Kelly O'Donnell at the White House for us this morning. Kelly thanks very much.
DAVID GREGORY

It's, it's really been grim. I mean they realize that this is probably the biggest political crisis ...
DAVID GREGORY

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or her...
DAVID GREGORY

I have never been more terrified in my life than when Dick Cheney whipped out that gun. I was sure I...
DAVID GREGORY

I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I belie...
DAVID GREGORY

One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Wh...
DAVID GREGORY

Whatever you think of George W. Bush, he left office with his faith intact, and I respect that.
DAVID GREGORY

My wife loves 'Scandal,' and I'm hooked on 'Homeland.' Sometimes I ask news make...
DAVID GREGORY

I think a lot of Jews make Israel the centerpiece of their Judaism. It becomes the centerpiece of th...
DAVID GREGORY

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.
DAVID GREGORY

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.
DAVID GREGORY

I've covered Israel just as I cover other politics.
DAVID GREGORY

I'm very grateful for the experience at NBC.
DAVID GREGORY

What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in fa...
DAVID GREGORY

I find myself very drawn to the experience of church. I love to be in a surrounding that's so we...
DAVID GREGORY

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.
DAVID GREGORY

As a Jew, I recognize the importance of Israel historically, liturgically: its place in our history ...
DAVID GREGORY

As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel ...
DAVID GREGORY

As much as I miss the work, I don't miss NBC. I don't miss being there. It was just the wron...
DAVID GREGORY

I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humilit...
DAVID GREGORY

I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experi...
DAVID ROBERTS

It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.
DAVID ROBERTS

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Dieg...
DAVID ROBERTS

I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks...
DAVID ROBERTS

As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from f...
DAVID ROBERTS

It's an incredible feat that he pulled off. There are second guessers who said he shouldn't have gon...
DAVID ROBERTS

Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.
DAVID ROBERTS

When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch t...
DAVID ROBERTS

The pickup in imports is in line with the sense we had that the slowdown in the U.S. economy is clos...
DAVID ROBERTS

The evidence is quite clear to us. If you're Taurus, Aries or Cancer we're more likely to see you in...
DAVID ROBERTS

I am faintly disturbed that this has turned into instant uplift. You'd hate to see him turn his life...
DAVID ROBERTS

We were deceived. The miners were peaceful. I always thought maybe some miner started it.
DAVID ROBERTS

As far as the dollar is concerned, I don't think this month's number will have much effect.
DAVID ROBERTS

McAfee is honored to have Tech Data as a customer, to receive this year's Difference Maker award and...
DAVID ROBERTS

Increases in health and liability insurance costs, utility expenses, and garbage hauling fees were f...
DAVID ROBERTS

Some 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast was devastated by the hurricane, and it seems so hard to ...
DAVID ROBERTS

The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three year...
DAVID ROBERTS

I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham You...
DAVID ROBERTS

Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 B.C., most of the city's edifices were built ...
DAVID ROBERTS

The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Lo...
DAVID ROBERTS

Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization's abrupt decline. The ...
DAVID ROBERTS

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship b...
DICK GREGORY

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an...
LADY GREGORY

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd h...
DICK GREGORY

Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereot...
GREGORY BENFORD

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and...
LADY GREGORY

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as b...
LADY GREGORY

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
LADY GREGORY

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after tim...
LADY GREGORY

I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tong...
LADY GREGORY

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
LADY GREGORY

It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every...
LADY GREGORY

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
LADY GREGORY

The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon ...
LADY GREGORY

It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the M...
LADY GREGORY

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
LADY GREGORY

It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it w...
LADY GREGORY

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
LADY GREGORY

It takes madness to find out madness.
LADY GREGORY

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good pla...
LADY GREGORY

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on ear...
LADY GREGORY

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may b...
LADY GREGORY

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of u...
LADY GREGORY

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two mon...
LADY GREGORY

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, ...
GREGORY HARRISON

As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal colu...
GREGORY BENFORD

We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod a...
GREGORY STOCK

In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They col...
GREGORY BENFORD

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated...
GREGORY STOCK

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but arou...
GREGORY HARRISON

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it ...
DICK GREGORY

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
GREGORY NUNN

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was c...
GREGORY BENFORD

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
GREGORY NUNN

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
GREGORY NUNN

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
GREGORY NUNN

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I...
GREGORY CORSO

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who sho...
GREGORY NUNN

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
GREGORY NUNN

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
GREGORY NUNN

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It sa...
GREGORY NUNN

And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you...
DICK GREGORY

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the ...
GREGORY CLARK

I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY

But no matter which path we take, Nessa, there will always be trying times. Faith is believing that ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

[Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest a...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that...
GREGORY PECK

As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has ...
GREGORY PETSKO

We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
GREGORY BENFORD

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyra...
LADY GREGORY

I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Cool...
LADY GREGORY

There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing ...
LADY GREGORY

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...
DICK GREGORY

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
GREGORY PECK

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better...
LADY GREGORY

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to ...
GREGORY BATESON

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after d...
DICK GREGORY

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the inte...
GREGORY BENFORD

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you...
DICK GREGORY

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
GREGORY PECK

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who k...
DICK GREGORY

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORY

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
GREGORY PECK

Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial pro...
GREGORY BENFORD

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its wor...
LADY GREGORY

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about co...
DICK GREGORY

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

The wall read:
ELPHIE LIVES
OZMA LIVES
THE WIZARD LIVES
and then
EVERYONE L...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I'll compliment on the spot. I want a clean, neat drugstore. I'll check the restrooms and cl...
GREGORY WASSON

Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I can not be the ideal person you are searching for if i am not the ideal person i am searching for.
GREGORY SAYEGH

There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.
GREGORY STOCK

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in...
GREGORY PECK

There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most lov...
GREGORY PECK

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the ...
DICK GREGORY

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down ...
DICK GREGORY

To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)
GREGORY BASSHAM

Le génie de l'oeuvre de Rowling réside non seulement dans son art de raconter des histoires, mais ...
BASSHAM GREGORY

I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt f...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

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