Sunitha Krishnan Quotes

#1. It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.

J.K. Rowling

#2. He yelled, Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.

Saul Bellow

#3. A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.

George Lucas

#5. Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.

Samuel Beckett

#6. The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

Swami Vivekananda

#7. Jack, I'm just telling you, if it turns out. . .I want you to shoot me."
"Dee - "
"I'm not kidding, not exaggerating, just telling you that I do not have it in me to handle that."
"You have a daughter, too. You don't have the luxury not to handle shit.

Blake Crouch

#8. We, as a society, we have PhDs in victimizing a victim.

Sunitha Krishnan

#9. The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there's this huge silence about it around me angers me.

Sunitha Krishnan

#10. The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system . We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.

Donella Meadows

#11. When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

Jerry Reinsdorf

#12. But the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

Paulo Coelho

#13. I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'

John Burnside