Interpreter Of Maladies Food Quotes & Sayings

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle. — Leo Tolstoy

Poor Tom did not know and could not learn that dissembling successfully is one of the creative joys of a businessman. To indicate enthusiasm was to be idiotic. — John Steinbeck

America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy. — Chaka Khan

You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that. — Sam Altman

True maturity is in attitude and a true attitude is maturity. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It may have been due to the effect of the gordo blanco on my cognitive functions, but I was suddenly overwhelmed by an extraordinary feeling - not of satisfaction but of absolute joy. It was the feeling I had in the Museum of Natural History and when I was making cocktails. We started dancing again, and this time I allowed myself to focus on the sensations of my body moving to the beat of the song from my childhood and of Rosie moving to the same rhythm. — Graeme Simsion

Beneath history, memory and forgetting
Beneath memory and forgetting, life. — Paul Ricoeur

Slay the idol of the seen, break the idols of performance, and believe the state of my house doesn't reflect the state of my soul...it's the priorities unseen - the prayers, the relationships, the love while doing the work - that hold the meaning, the merit. — Ann Voskamp

We were so little when you took away all our sins. — Maggie Stiefvater

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth. — Alexander Pope

Alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved nothing. He had his life
it was not worth much
not like a life that, though ended, had truly been something. If I had had courage,he thought, if I had had faith. We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one
we are left with no companion save God. In whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist. — James Salter

People hurt each other all the time just by being. What matters is that when you hurt someone, you do what you can to make it right. — Amy Lane

I tire of this constant longing that follows me as night follows day, unceasing. — Ava Zavora