Rathin Datta Quotes & Sayings

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them. — Simon Cowell

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. — Knute Rockne

Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Let your words heal, not wound. — Germany Kent

When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong. — Robert Kennedy

Prayer is the secret weapon that restores your trust in God. — Elizabeth George

Henceforward there is no longer anything absolutely foreign. Everything is within reach. Accordingly, there is no longer anything exclusively 'own' either. Authenticity has become folklore, it is ownness simulated for others - to whom the indigene himself belongs. — Wolfgang Welsch

If you repeat something enough, you can almost make yourself believe it. I'm — Lauren Oliver

Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with him to the very end. Firefly: Hmmph. No wonder he passed away. Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Firefly: Oh I see. Then, it was murder. — Groucho Marx

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people. — Scott Westerfeld

The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another. — Frank Prochaska

Sometimes people do go wrong. There is no judgment needed. Wrong will take a short time or a long time to make the individual aware that something is wrong, and that is the beginning of that person's awakening. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I noticed that very intelligent and informed persons were at no advantage over cabdrivers in their predictions, but there was a crucial difference. Cabdrivers did not believe that they understood as much as learned people - really, they were not the experts and they knew it. Nobody knew anything, but elite thinkers thought that they knew more than the rest because they were elite thinkers, and if you're a member of the elite, you automatically know more than the nonelite. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We all knew there was a good deal of pointlessness to nearly all the meetings and in fact one meeting out of every three or four was nearly perfectly without gain or purpose but many meetings revealed the one thing that was necessary and so we attended them and afterward we thanked each other. — Joshua Ferris