Ashim Shanker Quotes

#1. Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.

Ashim Shanker

#2. God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

Billie Holiday

#3. Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.

Ashim Shanker

#4. Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.

Ashim Shanker

#5. Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

Ashim Shanker

#6. All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

Ashim Shanker

#7. Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature - a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

Ashim Shanker

#8. As I had been forced to learn at a very young age, there's no better way to mask a lie - or at least a glaring omission - than to wrap it in an emotional outpouring of truth.

Alan Bradley

#9. Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

Ashim Shanker

#10. Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.

Ashim Shanker

#11. All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.

Ashim Shanker

#12. The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

Ashim Shanker

#13. Avoid the Yes or No-and-Go scenario.Give more than one option for others to do business with you. Include packages or pricing options.

Lisa A. Mininni

#14. This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Henry A. Wallace

#15. Etchings endure,
But not in Sand
Meanings Collide
To Unresolved Fragments
Codes fizzle to Static
They are not lost
But Unheard
Never lost
Fading slowly to Silence
By infinite degrees

Ashim Shanker

#16. Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!

Ashim Shanker

#17. We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. I'm not a thief.' Snorri lowered his brows. 'All right, we'll call it pillage,

Mark Lawrence

#19. Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

Diane Ackerman

#20. But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.

Ryan Hall

#21. It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.

Steve James

#22. Our homework is to start a conversation. I would feel most comfortable doing that with you, if you don't mind.

Amber L. Johnson

#23. The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom

Ashim Shanker