Sonal Quotes & Sayings

We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region. — Akbar Ganji

Salila!" said Maia, outraged. "Another DOG? ON TOP OF ALL THE OTHER ANIMALS?"
"SO WHAT....?" I began, and then got cut off as Polly attempted to land her shaggy grey bulk into my lap,
unmindful as ever of our respective sizes, long floppy ears flopping and entire behind wagging, whipping her long tail, and barking in ear-deafening bursts. — Sonal Panse

Shut up, lumpen-head," Billy had said, setting the stage for our future amicable relationship.
I remembered that very well too. That had been a first too. Nobody had called me a lumpen-head before that. Tavi had had to explain what it meant, and then I had punched Billy in the stomach. People had to help Pradyun separate us and one of the ladies had exclaimed, "But she looked like such a sweet, little girl too!"
"She's not a girl," Billy had said. "She's an ugly lumpen-head, and her parents found her under a toadstool."
Billy had been a sweet, little boy himself. Still was. Hadn't changed a bit over the years. — Sonal Panse

All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn't read to escape it, you read to discover it. — Brittainy C. Cherry

LOOK AT HIM! Mum, LOOK! OUR NEW DOG! ISN'T HE A BEAUTY?"
"Another DOG!" came Maia's amazed voice. — Sonal Panse

It was a fairly large house, larger than all our previous dwellings. There were two pinkwashed, picture- windowed, orange gable-roofed storeys, encompassing eight rooms, and an adjoining, presently shuttered garage. A friendly, unsymmetrical house, with pink bougainvillea hanging over the iron-lace decorated, semi-circular front porch and ivy climbing from the walls to the uneven gables. — Sonal Panse

An uneventful, quiet life together is more my idea of a romance."

"Really? Oh. Well. It won't get you featured in any of the ballads though."

"Yes," he said, with a heavy sigh. "And that will be the great tragedy of my romance. — Sonal Panse

People might say that they liked honesty, but they didn't, really. — Sonal Panse

Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me. — Walter Cronkite

glowered, and she returned — Amy Tan

We have no business squatting on other people's land and we have only ourselves to blame if they take a dim view of it. I mean, c'mon, what would you do if someone barged into our house and just took it over? How would you react? Are you going to say, welcome, intruders, take it all, we'll gladly confine ourselves to the bathroom. That is, until you want us out of the bathroom as well. Then we will happily kill ourselves and leave you to deal with our bodies as you please. Is that what you would say? Of course not. You would make a complete ruckus. So why are you surprised when other people do the same? — Sonal Panse

She's a mixed-breed and not the least bit aggressive.
She decided long ago she wanted to be a pet dog, not a guard dog. I think that's another reason why that man wanted to get rid of her. I've never understood all this fascination with aggressiveness. It's like an epidemic. People don't just want aggressive dogs, they want to be aggressive themselves. — Sonal Panse

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment. — Amy Thomson

Why should I ignore them? In my own house? Spiteful snobs! I've appalling taste, do I? I'm skeletal, am I? Anyone would look skeletal next to them. They are both starting to look like porkers! As soon as I go down, I'm going to mention it. I'm going to particularly point out Isolde's thunder thighs. I suppose it's appalling good taste to display them in such tight jeans. I'm going to ask how she even got into those pants without splitting the seams. — Sonal Panse

Forget your opponents; always play against par. — Sam Snead

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken. — Sloane Crosley

Family is everything!" he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. "If you don't have family, what do you have? — Sonal Panse

Cross my heart, it's the truth. My Ma consulted a Seer when I was born. He's fated to marry a girl that wears that ring, she said."

"Did she now?" I said. "Well, this is in mad fashion in Mahmonir, so, prepare yourself, you're going to be overburdened with wives once the word gets around! — Sonal Panse

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive. — Rob Sheffield

Besides, is it really a lie when the person you're telling it to knows you aren't being truthful in the first place? — Paige Shelton

There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned? — Sonal Panse

There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying. — Elon Musk