Devendra Mishra Quotes

#1. That profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth.

Marcel Proust

#2. Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Mortimer Adler

#3. I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

N. Murray Edwards

#4. Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#5. We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.

Andre Aciman

#6. Love is meant to be sipped, rather than chugged, like a glass of wine you drink strait from the bottle.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#7. With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.

Will Ferguson

#8. A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.

Paul Nurse

#9. For those of you who were critical that nobody paid enough attention to the generals at the beginning of the war, has it occurred to you that you don't want to make that mistake at the end of the war?
Secretary Robert Gates

Bob Woodward