Shobhit

“We could act in childish ways, we could revisit childhood places. But we never got back the childhood itself.”
― Thomas Wymark, Inheritance

“No event of any importance in India is complete without a goof-up. In this case, it was relatively minor. When, after the midnight session at the Constituent Assembly, Jawaharlal Nehru went to submit his list of cabinet ministers to the governor general, he handed over an empty envelope. However,”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“The best engineer in the world can’t build a 10-story sandcastle.”
― Pat Dorsey, The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments

“The Americans even exacted their revenge for Pearl Harbor in April 1943, when cryptanalysts learned that Admiral Yamamoto, who had planned the deadly attack, was due to make a visit to the island of Bougainville, near New Guinea. American fighters, waiting in ambush, came out of the clouds and sent the admiral down in flames to his death in the jungle below.”
― Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power