Bahl Online Quotes & Sayings

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true. — Julian Fellowes

I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium. — Raghav Bahl

It was one thingfor a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then back away. — Curtis Sittenfeld

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform. — John Cleese

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. — Sarah Churchwell

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. — Samuel Butler

We have fluctuations all the time, business cycles, and they come about in various ways, but normally what sets them off is some reduction in the willingness of our population, our businesses, and foreigners to buy. — Robert Solow

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it. — Aesop

Serious sport is war minus the shooting. — George Orwell

Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul. — Amit Ray

Take care, father," said Bulloch gently, "that what you call murder and robbery may not really be war and conquest, those sacred foundations of empires, those sources of all human virtues and all human greatness. — Anatole France

It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling our oversees commitments as well? We need to figure out how that impacts our ability in Iraq. — John McCain

What was going on here was that like so many people in contemporary society, along the way to gaining their superb educations, and their shiny opportunities, they had absorbed the wrong lessons. They had mastered formulas in calculus and chemistry. They had read great books and learned world history and become fluent in foreign languages. But they had had never formally been taught how to maximize their brains' potential or how to find meaning and happiness. Armed with iPhones and personal digital assistants, they had multitasked their way through a storm of resume-building experiences, often at the expense of actual ones. In their pursuit of high achievement, they had isolated themselves from their peers and loved ones and thus compromised the very support systems they so ardently needed. Repeatedly, I noticed these patterns in my own students, who often broke down under the tyranny of expectations we place on ourselves and those around us. — Shawn Achor