Varada Balachandran > Varada's Quotes

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“സൂതരെ, മാഗതരെ, അതുകൊണ്ട് കുരുവംശത്തിൻറെ ഗാഥകൾ നമ്മുക്കിനിയും പാടാം. കുരുവിനെയും കുരുപുത്രൻ പ്രതീപനെയും വാഴ്ത്താം. പ്രതീപപുത്രൻ ശാന്തുനുവിനെയും വാഴ്ത്താം. നമ്മുക്ക് ഗംഗയെ വാഴ്ത്താം. പിറവിയും പ്രേമവും പാപവും മരണവും കണ്ട വിഷ്നുപദോദ്ഭവയായ ഗംഗയെ വാഴ്ത്താം. ഗംഗയിൽ ശാന്തുനുവിനുണ്ടായ അതിവിഖ്യാതപുത്രൻ, വ്രതകാഠിന്യം കൊണ്ട് ദേവകളെ കൂടി അമ്പരപ്പിച്ച മഹാപുരുഷൻ ഭീഷ്മരെ വാഴ്ത്താം. മത്സ്യഗന്ധിയിൽ ശാന്തുനുവിനു പിറന്ന വിചിത്രവീര്യനെ വാഴ്ത്താം. വിചിത്രവീര്യക്ഷേത്രങ്ങളിൽ കൃഷ്ണദ്വൈപായനനിയോഗത്തിൽ പിറന്ന ദൃതരാഷ്ട്രരേയും പാണ്ഡുവിനെയും വാഴ്ത്താം.
കൃഷ്ണദ്വൈപായനൻ ദാസിക്ക് കനിനേകിയ ധർമ്മതുല്യൻ വിദുരരെ വാഴ്ത്താം.
പിന്നെ നമ്മുക്ക് യുധിഷ്ടരനെ വാഴ്ത്താം .
ചന്ദ്രവംശത്തിലെ സംവരണന് സൂര്യപുത്രി തപിയിലുണ്ടായ കുരുവിനെ നമ്മുക്ക് വാഴ്ത്താം .
തോഴരെ സൂര്യവംശമഹിമകൾ നമ്മുക്കിനിയും പാടാം.”
― M.T. Vasudevan Nair

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“What happens in the heart, simply happens”
― Ted Hughes

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

“I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“കുരുവംശത്തിലെ പുരുഷന്മാർ മുഴുവൻ സ്ത്രീകളുടെ കണീര് കണ്ട് രസിച്ചവരാണ്.എനിക്കറിയാം ....(ഗാന്ധാരി )”
― M.T. Vasudevan Nair, രണ്ടാമൂഴം | Randamoozham

“കൊടുങ്കാറ്റുകളെ ചങ്ങലയ്ക്കിട്ട് നടക്കുന്ന ദേവാ, ഇവിടെ ഞാനുണ്ട്.അവിടുത്തെ മകനായ അഞ്ചുവയസ്സുള്ള ഒരുണ്ണി.(ഭീമൻ)”
― M.T. Vasudevan Nair, രണ്ടാമൂഴം | Randamoozham

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”
― Woody Allen

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
― Bertrand Russell

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984