Vikas Swarup Quotes

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.

Vikas Swarup

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LifeChallengePeopleRelationships

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

John C. Maxwell

SpiritHuman SpiritHumanEnjoyment

I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila.

John Gokongwei

ThoughtNeverMakeKnewManila

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

Andrew Lansley

BestCareHealthcarePlaceKnowSee

If everyone in your class has heroes, and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.

John Leguizamo

MyselfFeelLiteratureYouHeritage

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Rosa Luxemburg

DemocracySmallBloodGuardWorking

When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if you watch too many recent Woody Allen movies or took French classes as a kid. I was certainly full of those.

Rosecrans Baldwin

IdeasYouParisMoviesKidWatch

Federal law provides very powerful tools, such as strict mandatory sentences, to go after repeat violent offenders who are illegally in the possession of a gun.

Mike DeWine

LawGunToolsPowerfulGoRepeat

As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.

Deborah Tannen

WorkPeopleResearchDifferences

Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs.

Clayton M. Christensen

ProcessEfficiencyNaturalEconomic

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

Boz Scaggs

WomenMusicThinkAmericanDoing

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Brooke Shields

YouMiseryTalentedNecessarily

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Swami Sivananda

GoodPatienceTimeYouNowWill

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