Jaikumar Velayudham > Jaikumar's Quotes

“I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!”
― Agatha Christie, Sleeping Murder

“One always has hope for human nature”
― Agatha Christie, Sleeping Murder

“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man”
― John le Carré, Call for the Dead

“He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.”
― John le Carré, Call for the Dead

“One cannot control traffic jams. But one can control his response to it”
― Dr.Jaikumar Velayudham, Madayya and Sadayya in the, "The mysteries of Mamallapuram": The Pallavan Saga

“No.Fear is necessary. It gets you ready to meet the challenge. Only when it becomes excessive, it becomes pathologic”
― Dr.Jaikumar Velayudham, Madayya and Sadayya in the, "The mysteries of Mamallapuram": The Pallavan Saga

“Fear shows you the path. It shows you the problems. It shows what you are against. It warns you. It’s a signal to be taken heed of. But not something to be avoided! Face the fear and death of fear is certain (later copied by Emerson!)"The”
― Dr.Jaikumar Velayudham, Madayya and Sadayya in the, "The mysteries of Mamallapuram": The Pallavan Saga

“Whenever a dangerous object attacks you, there are 2 ways of dealing with it “Fight or flight”. This is our body's natural mechanism to face acute stress.”
― Dr.Jaikumar Velayudham, Madayya and Sadayya in the, "The mysteries of Mamallapuram": The Pallavan Saga