Amitav Ghosh Quotes

“Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.”

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• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Most
  • Page
  • Twitter

• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• I love cycling.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Cycling

• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Me
  • Involved
  • Says

• I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Want
  • Wisdom
  • Always

• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • People
  • Up
  • Single

• I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Respect
  • Doing
  • Canada

• God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Done

• I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Past
  • Religion

• Before training, I eat slow-release energy food, such as porridge or muesli, especially in the morning. Afterwards, I eat protein so my muscles are able to recover, such as a protein bar followed by a meal of chicken and vegetables. I always stay hydrated during workouts by drinking plenty of water throughout.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Water

• There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Job
  • Song

• People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • American
  • Dad
  • Mom

• It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Job
  • Tough
  • Ending

• I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Look
  • More
  • Retro

• It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.

  

  Duff McKagan Guns N' Roses
  • World
  • Modern
  • Fingertips

• We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I could actually be wasting my time by not meditating, as I'd be more stressed out.

  

  Jeff Kober
  • Time

• Time is money, and the more breaks given, the less money that is made.

  

  Abby Johnson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Breaks

• Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Time
  • Flows
  • Strange way

• “Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.”

  

  Amitav Ghosh
  • Time
  • Know
  • Moments