A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes

I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

A. S. Byatt
- Nature
- Best
- Language
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- God
- Trying
- Play
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

N. T. Wright
- World
- Death
- Christian
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

Xavier Niel
- Better
- Outside
- Outsider
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
- Music
- History
- Technology
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

Paddy Ashdown
- Change
- Me
- Grief