Top 16 Nilofer Merchant Quotes
#1. Water is poured onto the road as a guest departs, both to make the journey "as smooth and fluid as water" and to ensure their safe return.
Ayse Kulin
#2. But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.
David Levithan
#3. We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
Lewis Thomas
#4. Look, human men are either 'gay' or 'straight'. Well, there are other options, but let's not get into that right now.
Eli Easton
#5. The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.
Rock Hudson
#6. In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.
Martin Clunes
#7. Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
Albert Ellis
#8. Time can be strange sometimes. It can leave imprints in particular places, leaving ghosts of memories trapped.
Holly Bourne
#10. If you walk with true awareness of every step, without having a goal to get anywhere, happiness will arise naturally. You don't need to look for happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#11. Even then Communists would reproach me for speaking of the Negro problem - they called it my racism. But I would answer: Marx is alright, but we need to complete Marx. I felt that the emancipation of the Negro consisted of more than just a political emancipation.
Aime Cesaire
#12. In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Friedrich Engels
#13. I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.
Uzo Aduba
#14. If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting things, people and ideas.
Nilofer Merchant
#15. Her smile was glassy, and she was ransacking her mind for something to say, finding nothing in it but used Kleenex and costume jewelry.
Kurt Vonnegut
#16. Look, I'm not going to apologise anymore ... Yes, I want to protect you. You're my wife. I'd fucking kill for you, Liv, and if that makes me a possessive bastard of a husband, then fine. That's what I am. I'm not going to change either. I love you too goddamned much.
Nina Lane
