Foretrack Quotes & Sayings

We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow. — Nandan Nilekani

Despite what we may think, we are all talented in our own unique way. — Robert Cheeke

There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation. — Bill Crawford

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. — John Lennon

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun. — Alan Alda

A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest. — George Eliot

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet. — Amy Dickinson

If we do not want to be overwhelmed and struck numb by rare events as if they were unprecedented ones; fortune needs envisaging in a thoroughly comprehensive way. — Seneca.

When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word - just to look at them and THINK. Miss Minchin turns pale with rage when I do it, Miss Amelia looks frightened, and so do the girls. When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in - that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do. Perhaps Emily is more like me — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sissie could see it all. In her uncertain eyes, on her restless hands and on her lips, which she kept biting all the time.
But oh, her skin. It seemed as if according to the motion of her emotions Marija's skin kept switching on and switching off like a two-colour neon sign. So that watching her against the light of the dying summer sun, Sissie could not help thinking that it must be a pretty dangerous matter, being white. It made you feel awfully exposed, rendered you terribly vulnerable. Like being born without your skin or something. As though the Maker had fashioned the body of a human, stuffed it into a polythene bag instead of the regular protective covering, and turned it loose into the world.
Lord, she wondered, is that why, on the whole, they have had to be extra ferocious? Is it so they could feel safe here on the earth, under the sun, the moon and the stars? — Ama Ata Aidoo

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. — Jonathan Carroll

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains. — Albert Einstein

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers. — Ina May Gaskin

Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand. — Michel Faber