Parthasarathi Chakraborty Quotes & Sayings

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts. — E. M. Forster

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means. — Sarah McLachlan

He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All writers are, somewhere or other, mad. Not les grands fous, like Rimbaud, but mad, yes, mad. Because we do not believe in the stability of reality. We know that it can fragment, like a sheet of glass or a car's windscreen. but we also know that reality can be invented, reordered, constructed, remade. Writing is, in itself, an act of violence perpetrated against reality. — Patricia Duncker

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing. — Molly Ivins

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why ... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often. — Ray Bradbury

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity? — Philip Yancey

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take. — Jill Scott

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely. — Damian Hopley

Ask the person trying to convince you of something to explain how it would work. Odds are they have not done the work required to hold an opinion. — Anonymous

I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write. — Clayton M Christensen

My name is immaterial,' she said.
That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind. — Terry Pratchett

I had to face my worst fears, to find the force of faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies. — Maya Angelou