Pabitra Subba Quotes & Sayings

Didn't know what was important and what was trivial. They couldn't remember what mattered. Without a conceptual framework in which to embed what they were learning, they were effectively amnesics. — Joshua Foer

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes. — Joyce Carol Oates

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone. — Peggy Noonan

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin. — John Updike

Look before you leap. — John Heywood

Around the world, about a thousand dolphins are held in captivity, while millions have been killed in purse seine tuna nets and drift nets. Tens of thousands of others have been "sacrificed" in the name of scientific research, some marine mammals merely to find out what they've been eating. — Richard O'Barry

When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father. — Gordon Lightfoot

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself
free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on. — Paulo Coelho

I don't want to become like him. Become one of those people who believe it's okay to do anything to anyone if it achieves the 'right' end. — Lisa M. Lilly

With Andy Cole up front they can score at any time. We'll be watching him very closely. — Robert Laurent

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor. — Pope John XXIII

Effective churches manage their resources - budgets, schedules, personnel - to accomplish the work of God in their communities without making efficiency the ruling principle of the congregation. — Thomas White

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. — Walter Bagehot

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will! — Jennifer Aniston