“Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“...(It) is to one British colonial policy-maker or another that we owe the Boxer Rebellion, the Mau Mau insurrection, the Boer War, and the Boston Tea Party”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“If ever the Empire comes to ruin, Heaslop, mark my words, the British publisher will be to blame.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“In debate he thought high and aimed low.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“Gangaji’s truth required activism, not passivity.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“He leaned towards the young man, his eyes, mouth and face all round in concentration. ‘“There was a banned crow,”’ he intoned sonorously. ‘“There was a cold day.” Not bad, eh? I learned those on the boat. Sounds like perfect Urdu, I’m told.’ He paused and frowned. ‘The devil of it is remembering which one means, “close the door,” and which one will get someone to open it.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“India is not an underdeveloped country but a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“The principles he stood for and the way in which he asserted them were always easier to admire than to follow.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate. When”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“If you believed in truth and cared enough to obtain it, Ganga affirmed, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it. It was essential to accept punishment willingly in order to demonstrate the strength of one’s convictions. That”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“Basic truth about the colonies, Heaslop. Any time there’s trouble, you can put it down to books. Too many of the wrong ideas getting into the heads of the wrong sorts of people. If ever the Empire comes to ruin, Heaslop, mark my words, the British publisher will be to blame.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“Bengalis say when offered cod, we still have other fish to fry.”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
“there is nothing restrictive or self-limiting about the Indian identity it reasserts: it is large, eclectic and flexible, containing multitudes. I”
― Shashi Tharoor, quote from The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date March 9, 1956
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“Lo malo es que las personas son insaciables. Algunas personas. Muchas veces, así es como empieza todo. No se empieza con el asesinato, con el deseo de cometerlo, ni siquiera pensándolo. Se empieza siendo, sencillamente, avaricioso, queriendo tener más de lo que se ha de recibir.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from 4:50 from Paddington
“We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Woman
“There are people we have never seen who are busy thinking up things we should be worried about.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, quote from Honeybee: Poems Short Prose
“So to you Elsa Greer spoke in the words of Juliet?’
‘Yes. She was a spoiled child of fortune-young, lovely, rich. She found her mate and claimed him-no young Romeo, a married, middle-aged painter. Elsa Greer had no code to restrain her, she had the code of modernity. “Take what you want-we shall only live once!’
He sighed, leaned back, and again tapped gently on the arm of his chair.
‘A predatory Juliet. Young, ruthless, but horribly vulnerable! Staking everything on the one audacious throw. And seemingly she won…and then-at the last moment-death steps in-and the living, ardent, joyous Elsa died also. There was left only a vindictive, cold, hard woman, hating with all her soul the woman whose hand had done this thing.’
His voice changed:
‘Dear, dear. Pray forgive this little lapse into melodrama. A crude young woman-with a crude outlook on life. Not, I think, an interesting character.Rose white youth, passionate, pale, etc. Take that away and what remains? Only a somewhat mediocre young woman seeking for another life-sized hero to put on an empty pedestal.’
Poirot said:
‘If Amyas Crale had not been a famous painter-’
Mr Jonathan agreed quickly. He said:
‘Quite-quite. You have taken the point admirably. The Elsas of this world are hero-worshippers. A man must havedone something, must be somebody…Caroline Crale, now, could have recognized quality in a bank clerk or an insurance agent! Caroline loved Amyas Crale the man, not Amyas Crale the painter. Caroline Crale was not crude-Elsa Greer was.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Five Little Pigs
“Eres realmente lo que se dice una verdadera patada en el culo —le dijo Joss por nosotros. Lo empujó al pasar
con enfado y se detuvo para añadir más
bajo—: Me alegro por vosotros —a Adam y a mí antes de desaparecer hacia su cuarto de baño.
Braden rio con suavidad.
—Realmente me ama.”
― Samantha Young, quote from Until Fountain Bridge
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