Meera Syal Quotes

#1. I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.

Sherri L. Smith

#2. I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to be. You, on the other hand, have to try any passing bandwagon, because what else have you got?

Meera Syal

#3. Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.

Sarah Dessen

#4. We give thanks to Lord God Almighty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has ... a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?

James Patterson

#6. Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

David Bowie

#7. The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

John F. Kennedy

#8. Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. Attack being the best form of defence, and never ever show that you might be in pain. That would only invite more violence because pity was for wimps and wimps could not survive round here

Meera Syal

#10. I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort
in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Every path leads to the same god.

Meera Syal

#12. Life isn't all haha hehe.

Meera Syal

#13. I've learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.

Greg Behrendt

#14. All great men and women had experienced times of wilderness,these moments precedes the dawn of self awakening, greatest potential and success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Imagination and the pure delight in stories drive out fear.

William Paton Ker

#16. I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.

Meera Syal

#17. I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

Jenny Slate

#18. I know if I react, and I want to get mad, and emotions come to the surface, I think quickly of my friends who have died and how they overcame their struggle and used their cancer and their lives for the betterment of mankind, and it sets me back in place.

Justin Baldoni

#19. Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

Tom Wolfe

#20. Choosing whom you love is the most political decision you can make.

Meera Syal

#21. But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)

Meera Syal

#22. Wills aren't really strong or weak; it is the characters that they express and serve that are.

William H Gass

#23. Maybe that's what love meant, both people thinking they were the lucky one.

Meera Syal