Pune Calling Quotes

#1. What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

Erich Fromm

#2. Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...

Michelle Paver

#3. In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.
(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)

Eugene V. Debs

#4. Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

Alice Hoffman

#5. 12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

Neal Stephenson

#7. The tree that never had to fight
for sun and sky and air and light
but stood out in the open plain
and always got it share of rain,
never became a forest king
but lived and died a scrubby thing.
Good timber does not grow with ease.
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.

Douglas Malloch

#8. We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Jen Hatmaker

#9. Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.

Alice Hoffman

#10. The future will look futuristic only because we will be trying to make it look futuristic.

Anonymous

#11. Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.

Emily Bronte

#12. Pausing between clouds
the moon rests
in the eyes of its beholders

Matsuo Basho

#13. Take me shoppin in France and he pay in advance.

Nicki Minaj

#14. I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.

James Dobson

#15. We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking

Albert Einstein