Kabeer Das Quotes & Sayings

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. — Sean Connery

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text. — Abraham Pais

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. — Steve Martin

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way. — Joan Armatrading

In the 1950s I rarely went to a community meeting without Jimmy and would usually just listen or ask questions. Now, having worked in the city and socialized with Jimmy's friends and Correspondence readers for years, I felt I had something to contribute. I was beginning to feel comfortable with the we pronoun, so comfortable that in FBI records of that period I am described as Afro-Chinese. — Grace Lee Boggs

If you've grown up with guns, the thought that someone might take them away makes your stomach churn. They make you feel safe. If you didn't grow up with guns, if you don't know how to use them, then the thought that someone else has them makes your stomach churn. — Philipp Meyer

All was over in a moment. I had fulfilled my destiny. I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her. — Charles Dickens

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn. — Aung San Suu Kyi

A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world ... Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man ... that by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song. — Nikos Kazantzakis

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else. — Simon Baker

Not only is [a mother] entrusted with the guardianship of the intellect and character of the world's statesmen and philosophers, but her gentle presence, as she bends over the cradle, and the silent influence of her daily life are shaping the entire moral character of the coming generation. — C.E. Sargent

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. — J. Paul Getty

Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you go ... it's like how women who play in the WNBA make so little, compared to men in the NBA. — Cassie Ventura