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Vikram Seth Quotes

Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.

Vikram Seth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: June 20, 1952

Topics

Power Government People Law Hands

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Joe Garagiola

Wife Baseball Credit Cards Know She

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time Money People Care End Others

When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.

Andy Dunn

Religion Baseball Me Confused Cubs

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

Michael Fassbender

People Tears Think Thought Talking

If you have a food blog and want to connect with a bigger audience, Nom is for you.

Steve Chen

Food You Want Audience Bigger Blog

But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.

Sophie Okonedo

People Doing You Lose Bad Tell

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Ronald Reagan

Take Root Planted Regimes Bayonets

A lot of horror movies just look at how they can scare people, and no matter which character dies, you don't ever really feel enough to actually care.

Milly Shapiro

Character People Care Enough Look

I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.

Dolores O'Riordan

Life Negative Short Dwell Conclusion

I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed like a worthy goal.

Diana Gabaldon

Goal Way More Never Years Worthy

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

Cheryl Strayed

Perspective Fun People Have Fun Go

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

Bobby Darin

Hope Go Knife Will Out Well