Palace Of Illusions Quotes

#1. What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.

John Ashcroft

#2. Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#3. In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

Howard Jacobson

#4. Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

Pascal Mercier

#5. I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

Nas

#6. Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Plato

#7. You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.

Frederick Lenz

#8. You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

Neil Patrick Harris

#9. By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

Anne Desclos

#10. But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

Carter Heyward

#11. 'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#12. I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#13. In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

Bertrand Russell

#14. A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

Barack Obama

#15. 3And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Anonymous

#16. We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

Bill O'Reilly

#17. What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#18. To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Lane Allen

#19. But Krishna was a chameleon.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni