Resham Sheth > Resham's Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Quantitatively speaking, 'conversation' is inversely proportional to economic standing. If you are traveling in a bus, your fellow passengers will get into a conversation with you very quickly and without any reservation. If you are traveling by first class on a train, people will be more reserved. If you are traveling by air, then the likely hood of getting into a conversation is quite small. If you are in first class on an international flight then you may travel 24 hours without exchanging a single word with the person sitting next to you.”
― Sudha Murty, Wise and Otherwise

“Vision without action is merely a dream; action without vision is merely passing time; but vision and action together can change the world.”
― Sudha Murty, Wise & Otherwise

“If you try to please everyone, you will please no one. It is impossible to lead your life for others’ happiness.”
― Sudha Murty, Wise & Otherwise

“Usually, people who are sensitive need more time to understand the real world.”
― Sudha Murty, House of Cards: A Novel

“Who is the best friend to a man and a woman?” The answer is: “A wife to her husband and a husband to his wife.”
― Sudha Murty, House of Cards: A Novel

“I can give you many examples of people who may not have studied much but have done well for themselves because they believed they could.”
― Sudha Murty, Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

“At twenty, if you are not an idealist, then you don't have a heart. And if you continue being an idealist at forty, then you don't have a brain.”
― Sudha Murty, House of Cards

“A true leader leads with affection and not power.”
― Sudha Murty, House of Cards: A Novel

“When daughters grow up, they become good friends to mothers but when young boys grow up, they become strangers.”
― Sudha Murty, House of Cards: A Novel

“In an effort to teach myself self-restraint and self-control, I decided that until I completed my engineering degree, I would wear only white saris, refrain from sweets, sleep on a mat and take baths with cold water. I aimed to become self-sufficient; I would be my best friend and my worst enemy. I didn’t know then that such a quote already existed in the Bhagavad Gita where Krishna says, ‘Atma aiva hi atmano bandhu aatma aiva ripu atmanah’.”
― Sudha Murty, Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

“Confidence doesn’t mean that everything will go our way. It simply gives us the ability to accept failures that we will inevitably meet on our path and move forward with hope.”
― Sudha Murty, Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

“Life after marriage is a battle. Only a few are truly lucky.”
― Sudha Murty, House of Cards: A Novel

“Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.”
― Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

“In the looking, I found the cities within me.”
― Suketu Mehta

“This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back.”
― Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

“Anybody in the world can come to India and find home.”
― Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

“Democracies have a weakness: If a bad law has enough money or people behind it, it stays on the books.”
― Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.

I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…

I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’

‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’

What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!

I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Killing rips the soul apart.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“But Death was cunning.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!”
― J.K. Rowling