Amitav Ghosh Quotes

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

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• How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Bad
  • Science

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Proud
  • Something
  • Learned

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Existence
  • Poet
  • Philosopher

• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Never

• Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Great
  • Wealth
  • Development

• I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Mistakes
  • Triumphs

• I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Pain
  • Better
  • New

• Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Future
  • Reality
  • inspirational

• If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Education
  • Beginning
  • Advice

• I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • Dad
  • End

• It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • War
  • Kind
  • Soldiers

• The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth

• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Cracks
  • Decay

• I think you get less takes on TV than in movies.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Movies
  • I Think

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

  

  Amitav Ghosh
  • Past
  • Present
  • Use