Ashok K. Banker Quotes

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

Ashok K. Banker

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• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Myself

• I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Age
  • Learn

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Together
  • Black
  • Path

• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Resolution
  • Heartbreak

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Big

• Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • World
  • Why

• When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Heart
  • Walking

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• These changes are part of what keeps me interested and excited. Life won't let me keep coming at it from the same angle.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life

• Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Faith

• The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Serious
  • Practice

• 'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Help
  • Lion

• Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Today
  • Chaos

• I've always wanted a black girlfriend. Not as a joke, just so when we sixty-nine I can call it Yin-Yanging.

  

  Bo Burnham
  • Black
  • Girlfriend

• I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Mind
  • Nice
  • Desire

• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Mind
  • Transformation
  • Healing

• I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Education
  • Desire
  • Industry

• Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

  

  Ashok K. Banker
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Lives