Shoubhik Das Quotes & Sayings

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway. — Nora Dunn

The CFO asks the CEO, "What happens if we invest in developing our people and they leave us?" The CEO responds, "What happens if we don't, and they stay? — Trish Bertuzzi

From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what he accepts. He must wait for the gift of love, and love can only be received as a gift ... One must wait for it, let it be given to one. And one cannot become wholly man in any other way than by being loved, by letting oneself be loved ... If he declines to let himself be presented with the gift, then he destroys himself. — Pope Benedict XVI

I want to show my sins within
To help make me sinless, once again
What I Want — Shay Leigh

I didn't know ten people who had radios. — Truman Capote

I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home. — Rachel Tucker

Does that feel better?" she asked, not expecting any sort of an answer but feeling nonetheless that she ought to continue with her one-sided conversation. "I really don't know very much about caring for the ill, but it just seems to me like you'd want something cool on your brow. I know if I were sick, that's how I'd feel."
He shifted restlessly, mumbling something utterly incoherent.
"Really?" Sophie replied, trying to smile but failing miserably. "I'm glad you feel that way."
He mumbled something else.
"No," she said, dabbing the cool cloth on his ear, "I'd have to agree with what you said the first time." He went still again.
"I'd be happy to reconsider," she said worriedly. "Please don't take offense." He didn't move.
Sophie sighed. One could only converse so long with an unconscious man before one started to feel extremely silly. — Julia Quinn

My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members.
about the only statement i agree with in this book — C.S. Lewis

Eliminate one species, and another increases in number to take its place — Kim Sterelny

I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff ... what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like. — Jess C. Scott

When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you "best of all." It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [ ... ] — Claire Messud