Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1967

Topics

RelationshipParentsGrowing UpUp

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Andrew Young

ViolenceNon-ViolenceMoreThan

I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets.

Matt Flynn

LifeMottoLivingNo RegretsTry

Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.

Trevor Paglen

WorldIsolationPoliticalYouSocial

The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeKnowledgePersonalityStandards

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

Judd Gregg

WorkYouKnowWayRepresentation

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

ChangeSoulManBelievePolitical

I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything else. Anything less than that unmitigated full commitment leaves me feeling frustrated and ineffective.

Chris Sacca

TimeCommitmentMeThoughtFeeling

I come home from work, and depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate or play guitar or watch some 'Monty Python.'

Brent Sexton

WorkHomeDayGuitarPlayAdjust

I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill.

Post Malone

ChillGuitarQuietPlayJustLike

It's very strange getting out of the military, when you've lived in Iraq, and people you know are going overseas again and again. Some of them are getting injured.

Phil Klay

PeopleYouKnowStrangeMilitary

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Nicolas Cage

PerfectionNobodyWatchWants

What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

Lillian Gish

LifeYouLivingGiveGet

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