Salman Rushdie Quotes

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Salman Rushdie

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• I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Human
  • Cry
  • Frustrated

• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • History
  • Taken
  • Judge

• The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • True
  • Human

• It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Human
  • Impossible
  • View

• I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Evidence
  • Extraordinary

• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Up
  • Government
  • Human

• As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Human
  • LGBT
  • Bacteria

• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Human
  • Act
  • Morality

• The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • May
  • Human

• Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Me
  • Eye
  • Human

• I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Think
  • Human
  • Human being

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Human being

• You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • You
  • Human
  • Human being

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Food
  • Human
  • Sharing

• Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Action
  • Always
  • Human

• So long as human beings can gain sufficient co-operation from some to enable them to dominate others, they will use the forms of law as one of their instruments. Wicked men will enact wicked rules which others will enforce. What surely is most needed in order to make men clear sighted in confronting the official abuse of power, is that they should preserve the sense that the certification of something as legally valid is not conclusive of the question of obedience, and that, however great the aura of majesty or authority which the official system may have, its demands must in the end be submitted to a moral scrutiny.

  

  H. L. A. Hart
  • Human
  • Cooperation
  • Gain

• Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.

  

  Isaiah Washington
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate in the Holy Scripture Liberation theology is of course also inspired by the Word, but its representatives are convinced that God also speaks to us in everyday events and that, for example, information obtained through the mass media can be a special way in which God speaks to us.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • Inspired
  • Events
  • Liberation

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Always
  • Perception
  • Prove

• One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Human
  • Events
  • Extraordinary