Abraham Verghese Quotes

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Abraham Verghese

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Let's judge a man on what he's done.

Barbara Bush
- Done
- Man
- Judge
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

Aasif Mandvi
- People
- America
- Food
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Walter Kaufmann
- Believe
- Character
- Book
You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.

Olivia d'Abo
- Want
- Past
- Mission
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

Saad Hariri
- People
- Fall
- Easy
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Vidal Sassoon
- Mother
- Feeling
- Myself