Rishad Premji Quotes & Sayings

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes. — Garth Stein

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care. — William Carlos Williams

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time. — Yiyun Li

Education was my father's way out of poverty. He taught me that learning was incredibly valuable. — Phil Cooke

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself. — Ronnie O'Sullivan

If you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay, or married. — Jeff Foxworthy

what ever happenings life has to go on — Jacob

Weese," she would whisper, first of all. "Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei." - Arya Stark, A Clash of Kings — George R R Martin

I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India ... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things. — Sania Mirza

As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge. — Cristina Marrero

Was Cook's ship a scientific expedition protected by a military force or a military expedition with a few scientists tagging along? That's like asking whether your petrol tank is half empty or half full. It was both. The Scientific Revolution and modern imperialism were inseparable. People such as Captain James Cook and the botanist Joseph Banks could hardly distinguish science from empire. — Yuval Noah Harari

By the time dad died, the junk was so piled up that there were tunnels instead of rooms. — Holly Black

One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today. — John Kador

We were a pairing out of an Aesop's fable, the grasshopper and the ant, the tortoise and the hare. And sure, maybe the ant was warmer in the winter and the tortoise won the race, but everyone knows that the grasshopper and the hare were infinitely more appealing animals in all their leggy beauty, their music and interesting side trips. What the story didn't tell you is that the ant relented at the eleventh hour and took in the grasshopper when the weather was hard, fed him on his tenderest store of grass all winter. The tortoise, being uninterested in such things, gave over his medal to the hare. Grasshoppers and hares find the ants and tortoises. They need us to survive, but we need them as well. They were the ones who brought the truth and beauty to the party, which Lucy could tell you as she recited her Keats over breakfast, was better than food any day. — Ann Patchett