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Rohinton Mistry

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MARKUS ZUSAK Love is a powerful emotion, but only for those of us who are strong enough to endure the pain it can...
CHRISTINA MCMULLEN Humans will ingest any and everything to try and enhance what the majority of them claim their God h...
BOBBY W. MILLER Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
MORENA BACCARIN Insults are effective only where emotion is present.
... SPOCK I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of huma...
DAVID MITCHELL Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. How...
ROHINTON MISTRY And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.
ROHINTON MISTRY Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the who...
ROHINTON MISTRY Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder
ROHINTON MISTRY Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
ROHINTON MISTRY Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a ...
ROHINTON MISTRY You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have t...
ROHINTON MISTRY Flirting with madness is one thing. But when madness starts flirting back, its time to call the whol...
ROHINTON MISTRY Does it stand, but not straight enough? Is there a bend in the tool? Leaning left like the Marxist-L...
ROHINTON MISTRY But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pa...
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 How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness
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 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...
ROHINTON MISTRY World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of ...
ROHINTON MISTRY The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for some...
ROHINTON MISTRY Humans are either inherently givers or inherently takers, no wonder the planet is always at war!
CRISTABEL MICHAELS The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also...
SUZY KASSEM ...your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion... Can you see the power e...
BRANDON MULL The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly ...
MARKUS ZUSAK We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big probl...
ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON Only the vain are concerned with their name.
RONALD FRANCIS GOGGIN Why should humans in their unsurity decide what species are and are not important to humans? Is natu...
IVAN URLAUB Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder.
DEBASISH MRIDHA In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring tho...
RICHARD AXEL Fear is undoubtedly the most weakening emotion. A fearful person has no ability to protect their per...
MICHELLE FROST We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...
ALBERT CAMUS It has been very controversial whether humans can do egocentric localization, that is, keep their he...
NOAM SOBEL I'm now concerned that they've dropped it to below the level where it makes sense for consumers to u...
CHIP WOLFE We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...
ALBERT CAMUS Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many few...
GARY STEINER I think it's sad that there are only six. Yes, things come up, but at the same time we're here for t...
HEATHER JANIK It is not in technology that the skill of humans lie. It is their ability to dominate and curse all ...
S. PRANAV SURYADEV The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
SENECA This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's ro...
TAMORA PIERCE Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for he...
GASTON LEROUX I've heard from judges concerned about their ability to decide a case in six minutes.
CATHY GREEN Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to e...
TAHIR SHAH There was a sense in the last few weeks that we had seen the worst of the bad news, but the Yahoo's ...
CONOR BILL If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Wha...
LIV ULLMANN I refuse to endure months of expensive humiliation only to be told that at the age of four I was in ...
NOEL COWARD There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and ...
TODD RUNDGREN He looked at me with serious eyes, but not the kind that made me wonder what I’d done wrong. The k...
DENISE JADEN Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indif...
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS We are definitely concerned about management's ability to execute this upcoming turnaround.
JOAN STORMS But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people a...
BILL BRYSON I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of abi...
CONFUCIUS The greatest gift that humans have is the ability to think. Of all the creatures in the world, human...
SHIV KHERA It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the ...
DAN DEACON The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are be...
SUSAN EE It's amazing what the body can adapt to & the spirit can endure, when to adapt & endure are the only...
ANGEL DYKES Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling...
IAN HACKING I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to bot...
MEGAN FOX The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort o...
BECKY CHAMBERS Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...
DAVID BOWIE We are concerned that our ability to compete with businesses in other places in the county and state...
LARRY PEARSON It has nothing to do with ability. Because of weather and bus rides, we thought it made sense to sta...
MIKE ARBUCKLE We had to reinforce with our staff that [the takeover] makes sense. We are the catalyst to help driv...
GARRY HENLEY Its in papers, Its in T.V its where you go, Children are crying soldiers are dying humans are their ...
ROSARYMAN Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes...
KIM ALEXANDER I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Gree...
BARRY UNSWORTH Outside, the dogs whine over the wind. They sense the wolves - they sense the wild. It calls to them...
SUMMER LANE “One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their natur...
ZAMAN ALI One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature.
ZAMAN ALI Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations...
ROBERT LUDLUM I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS Love isn't an emotion, love is good sense that should make sense - Sophia Elemara
SOPHIA ELEMARA

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