Vikram Seth Quotes

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Vikram Seth

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• Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Place
  • Sides
  • Release

• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Man
  • Stop

• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• God does arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • God
  • Does
  • Arithmetic

• As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Women
  • Future

• Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Life
  • Own
  • Most

• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Work
  • Sound

• I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Voice

• My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Country
  • Friends

• I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Smart
  • Born
  • Meaning

• Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Country
  • Yes

• Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • People
  • Actions
  • Secrets

• I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Find

• We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Talking
  • Europe
  • Waves

• I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Road

• I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Mother

• It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Change
  • Hunger

• To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don't overdue the pink.

  

  Ruth Pitter
  • Writing
  • Winning
  • Sweet

• I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

  

  John Tesh
  • Wanted
  • Television
  • Musician

• Superstition sawSomething it had never seen before:Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear,Beauty so sudden for that time of year.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Eyes

• Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Wanted
  • Silly
  • Though