Top 17 Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Quotes
#1. Grudges don't die - people do.
#2. The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
#3. Felt other Christian charities and ministries of compassion were wrong in showing the love of Christ. No, many were doing a wonderful job. But I felt the local church should be the center for outreach, and we needed to bring the balance back.
#4. To advance, however far, is profitless unless the ground gained can be consolidated, or the momentum sustained.
#5. Any new French female acquaintance would most likely have held herself aloof, eyeing you suspiciously until she had assessed your character and whether or not you posed a threat.
#6. An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.
#7. Train your emotions to listen to your fundamental empowering beliefs. Be principle-centred and values-driven.
#8. Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.
#9. You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair
#10. I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.
#11. If God is dead, everything is allowed.
#12. The family that reads together grows together!
#13. Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
#14. You have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.
#15. I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.'
#16. Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
#17. Brutus was out of the car first. He opened the door for me. I thanked him. Brutus stuck with the stoic. He had the kind of cigar-store-Indian face you couldn't imagine - and probably wouldn't ever want to see - smiling. On