Baru Quotes

#1. Cover your cocks," the men sailors sometimes joked. "They're always hunting sodomites."
"What do they do to sodomites?" Baru asked.
They looked at her with some astonishment. "Hot iron," one said. "Hssssssssss.

Seth Dickinson

#2. Is this how you think we should fight, Baru Fisher? With coin and open roads?" "No war has ever been won by slaughtering the enemy wholesale.

Seth Dickinson

#3. I am Baru Cormorant," she protested, "accountant.

Seth Dickinson

#4. There was nowhere in the world, Baru thought, no collection of lords or lovers, that did not have its own politics.

Seth Dickinson

#5. Baru raised her hand to smash the wineglass. Checked herself, checked even her trembling, and stood there in absurd pantomime, too firmly in control of her anger to move, too deeply angry for anything but stillness.

Seth Dickinson

#6. Salt and citrus," Cairdine Farrier said, joining her at the stern with a lemon in each hand. "The chemicals of empire."
"Salt to preserve food for long journeys," Baru recited. "Citrus for scurvy.

Seth Dickinson

#7. More than anything else in the universe, more than the power to dictate law at Taranoke, more than the knowledge of the count of stars in the sky, Baru wanted in that moment to speak the truth.

But she had no tongue for it. She had burnt all her truth away. Alloyed it into the machine

Seth Dickinson

#8. Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi - the pracharak versus the prince, the 'outsider' versus the 'insider', the meritocrat versus the dynast, the small-town tea boy versus the child of elite privilege.

Rajdeep Sardesai

#9. To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#10. Enthusiastic work is daring spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate

Sanjaya Baru

#12. Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.

Bill Cosby

#13. Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

Brian Reynolds

#14. All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Dizzy Dean

#15. Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

John Howard

#16. If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.

Darlene Love

#17. Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.

Gijs De Vries

#18. Oliver sat huddled together, in a corner of the cart; bewildered with alarm and apprehension; and figuring strange objects in the gaunt trees, whose branches waved grimly to and fro, as if in some fantastic joy at the desolation of the scene.

Charles Dickens

#19. I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.

Amber Heard

#20. Isolationism is over.

Ralph Steadman

#21. geniza is that these works, like people, are living things, possessing an element of the sacred about them - and therefore when they "die," or become worn out, they must be honored and protected from profanation.

Adina Hoffman