A Wife's Story Bharati Mukherjee Quotes

#1. We have fallen into the sugar shaker.
We are the ground beneath you.
Let someone else describe the sky.
Hold us in silence.
Do no throw us back
into some discussion.

Rumi

#2. Anything where there's great enthusiasm, and a place to come share what you think is cool.

Keanu Reeves

#3. Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Aristotle.

#5. Never confuse cynicism for intelligence.

Ahmed Al-Sheikh

#6. Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.

Daphne Oz

#7. Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.

Luis Walter Alvarez

#8. We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

Douglas Rushkoff

#9. Whichever way I went, there would be sadness and a sense of loss. Was this a part of growing up - the agony of making such choices?
If so, I wanted to stay a child forever.

- Ian Carras

Bill Brittain

#10. Humans always have fear of an unknown situation
this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

John Herschel

#11. The music of the busy bee Is drowsy, and it comforts me; But, ah! 'tis quite another thing, When that same bee concludes to sting! Andrew Downing (nineteenth-century American horticulturalist)

Dave Goulson

#12. I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.

Hope Davis

#13. A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.

Brian P. Cleary

#14. If he was going to be held hostage to this unwanted compulsion, then she was damn well coming along for the ride.

Nalini Singh

#15. year-old girl. It was more than a habit, for a habit could be broken. This was a deep disposition, the outline experience had stencilled on character. It was not

Ian McEwan