"Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Mind Quotes #India Quotes #Flags Quotes

“How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one of the ministers. She constantly demands to see her mother," said another, "and somewhat less constantly demands that we return her homburg to her.”
“I'm not the girl to keep all the emotions I have inside. I guess I have to pay lots of fines because that's the way I am,”
“This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.”

Source : "World Twenty20: Mike Hussey and Australia pickpocket Pakistan" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010.
“Life is fundamentally up for grabs”
“somethings can only be seen in the shadows”
“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”

Source : John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan
“I was born where there were no enclosures.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.”

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