"My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships."

-- Vikas Swarup

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often, but I hated it when it did. It was faulty wiring in the female body, tear ducts attached directly to the frustration meter. Trying to explain to men that no, I wasn't being manipulative, I just couldn't stop my eyes from leaking salt water, only added to the aggravation.”

Source : C.E. Murphy (2010). “Demon Hunts”, p.151, LUNA
“In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick. There lie many fighting men. Dead in their youthful prime.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1918). “Joyce Kilmer”
“We determine our Destination by our priorities.”
“Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.”

Source : "Les Prix Nobel". Book published by Nobelstiftelsen, 2001.
“Realize that the people who are working with you, this is their life. You know, 80% of their time is spent at work. Make sure that they're proud of what they're doing, that they're enjoying what they're doing.”
“No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.”
“you don't deal with time. Time deals with you.”
“The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its way out of debt. It thought that if it could subsidize banks lending homeowners enough money to buy houses from people who are defaulting, then the bank balance sheets would end up okay.”

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