Dibyendu Das Quotes & Sayings

Going to tell us why you think so, Gunny?" "I expect the belief is based on years and years of experience combined with a number of subliminal clues that I'm not consciously aware of." "Gut feeling?" Mike asked in the stunned silence that followed her declaration. "Pretty much, yeah. — Tanya Huff

If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were uniform, inter changeable, devoid of specific personality traits of their own, then who would care whether they were free or not? Who, indeed, would care if they lived or died? The glory of the human race is the uniqueness of each individual, the fact that every person, though similar in many ways to others, possesses a completely individuated personality of his own. It is the fact of each person's uniqueness - the fact that no two people can be wholly interchangeable - that makes each and every man irreplaceable and that makes us care whether he lives or dies, whether he is happy or oppressed. And, finally, it is the fact that these unique personalities need freedom for their full development that constitutes one of the major arguments for a free society. — Murray N. Rothbard

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way. — Gordon Parks

You glowed in the cool moonlight last night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my equal. — Charlotte Bronte

Just because you can't find them doesn't mean they don't exist. You've got to change the way you're
looking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there. — Richard N. Bolles

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves. — Salman Rushdie

By the time they passed Malindi in the early-afternoon hours, Munroe could feel the syntax, the grammar, the resonance of patterns of the country's lingua franca beginning to form, could feel the tension relaxing now that the key to the aural lock had been handed over, and soon enough, over time and of its own accord, her ability to speak would grow and she would rapidly become more and more fluent.

This same poisonous gift - this savant like ability to visualize the way the words configured into shapes - had defined her life and turned her into what she was now. Without language, there would have been no gunrunning, without gunrunning no nights in the jungle fighting off the worst of human predators, without the nights, no instinct of self-preservation and the speed and the need to kill that had marked her every moment, waking and sleeping, since. — Taylor Stevens

Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex? — Rue McClanahan

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together. — Mahatma Gandhi

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book. — Anthony Marra

It takes critical thinking to frame the right problem and empathetic thinking to address the correct need. — Pearl Zhu