Arun Manickam > Arun's Quotes

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“It was not possible to reason with unreasonable people”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“For me, reading was adventure,but most of all, reading was escape-”
― Andrew E. Kaufman, The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted

“God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.”
― Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict

“Being too reasonable is a defect”
― Michael Crichton, Disclosure

“A job well done is a reward in its own right,”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“Life will find a way.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can’t be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“We can all live with doubts. It's the knowing that breaks us.

Iron House”
― John Hart