Tamilian Quotes & Sayings

all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death. — Amos Oz

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth. — Brian Aldiss

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian — Chetan Bhagat

whatever else women want to see, it's not themselves; not in their worst light anyway. — Margaret Atwood

Some wrong eternity that wouldn't budge, like trying to move a wardrobe or a safe, only to feel how light I was. — Deborah Digges

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour. — David Luiz

Push until you can push no more, and then, push some more. — Kevin Abdulrahman

I am a Dalit in Khairlanji. A Pandit in the Kashmir valley. A Sikh in 1984. I am from the North East of India when I am in Munirka. I am a Muslim in Gujarat; a Christian in Kandhamal. A Bihari in Maharashtra. A Delhi-wallah in Chennai. A woman in North India. A Hindi-speaker in Assam. A Tamilian in MP. A villager in a big city. A confused man in an indifferent world. We're all minorities.
We all suffer; we all face discrimination. It is only us resisting this parochialism when in the position of majoritarian power that makes us human.
I hope that one day, I can just be an Indian in India - only then can I be me. — Sami Ahmad Khan

Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again. — Deepak Chopra

An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating. — Nick Harkaway

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public. — Michael Moore

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies ... but it's a brutal world, man. — Pete Doherty

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. — Kahlil Gibran