Malvika

“If a forward makes a mistake, he can try again. If he scores, he’s in with a shout of the Ballon d’Or. But when it’s a defender who slips up, it’s a far more delicate situation. In percentage terms, the people who play at the back make fewer mistakes than those further forward.”
― Andrea Pirlo, I Think Therefore I Play

“but in the early days many things happened that were unpredictable and unheard of in Indian banking history—rats chewing off computer wires, a baby crawling on the treasury floor, bottles of wine hidden in the drawers and whatnot.”
― Tamal Bandopadhyaya, A Bank for the Buck

“An therein lurks the cruelest truth of all. In the end, we are no different from every other cult, every other religion. Convincing ourselves of the righteousness of our path. Convincing ourselves that we alone hold to an immutable truth. Secure in the belief that everyone else is damned.

But it was all a game, the sacred a playground for secular power struggles, venal ambition.

What's left to believe in?”
― Steven Erikson, The Crippled God

“The question of the rightness or wrongness of Potts appeared to be one on which he was loth to set himself up as an authority.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred In The Springtime