Dalai Lama Quotes
If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.
Quotes to Explore
-
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
-
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
-
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
-
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
-
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
-
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
-
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
-
I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
-
I don't think I have a black-hat image.
-
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
-
I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
-
War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
-
This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
-
Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
-
If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
-
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
-
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
-
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
-
I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
-
I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.
-
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.
-
If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.
