Aakhri Mulakat Quotes & Sayings

"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us. — Satish Kumar

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face. — Alexandre Dumas

My hand moves because certain forces
electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be
are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe. — Lewis Carroll

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall
that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary. — Henry A. Kissinger

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel. — Tom Rachman

He didn't want to rule the world. He only wanted to save it. Athos — V.E Schwab

The world would be a much simpler place if one could bring about social change merely by making a logically consistent moral argument. — Peter Singer

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. — Milton Friedman

To live is to die. — Cliff Burton

There's a lot of frogs to kiss before you realize they're all frogs. — Kelly Moran

The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends. — Emma Forrest

The reason why people fail to achieve their dreams is because they stop pursuing them. — Paulo Coelho

He had never seen her body so abandoned, so unconscious of all but the desire to be taken and satisfied. She bloomed under his caresses, no longer the girl but the woman already being born. — Anais Nin

Have her kidnapped. Tell her you're pregnant and she's the mother. Leave a trail of bread crumbs. — Jennifer Crusie