Mahbubani Quotes

#1. Sometimes you need a major crisis to bring people together.

Kishore Mahbubani

#2. Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

Paul Valery

#3. Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.

Gwynne Dyer

#4. The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

Kishore Mahbubani

#5. This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.

Michael Behe

#6. The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.

Meir Soloveichik

#7. I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.

Michael Robotham

#8. Fantasies are the escape that every prisoner of the soul indulges in.

Manoj Vaz

#9. I DO have feelings for Curls. Feelings of annoyance and irritation, mainly, spiked with occasional pangs of pity.

Rob Reger

#10. Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

Shakuntala Devi

#11. Predisposition is not predestination.

William Landay

#12. Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.

Thaddeus Norris