Abdul Kalam In Tamil Quotes & Sayings

Let us say, as a thought experiment, that someone in a country equipped with doomsday weapons fears attack from another country and strikes preemptively. There would be thousands of years of cultural history and some few decades of personal history behind the decision. Madman though he might be, he would have brought the species to a culmination that humankind had been preparing for eons. To say that a spasm of activity in a region of his brain was crucial to the event would be utterly trivial. — Marilynne Robinson

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever. — Michael W. Smith

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man. — Brad Pitt

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. — James Barrett Reston

There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes
when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops. — Philip Zimbardo

Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy ... — Marvin Hagler

We are what we do. — Erich Fromm

I think we're going to care more about Americans than Africans. I don't think that's ever going to go away, and I don't think it's ever going to go away that people care more about their families than strangers, and their communities over other communities. But I think it would transform the world in such a good way if we could just acknowledge, at least intellectually, that an African life and an American life are the same. — Paul Bloom

For man is man and master of his fate. — Alfred The Great