Ashok Quotes

Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle. ~ Ashok K. Banker

We all have a grain of god in us. We do get opportunities to realize it, when moments in life demand selfless deeds of compassion from us. But we often squander them. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

We're all forced to lead many lives simultaneously. We do it out of necessity, not choice. We don't make a virtue of it. ~ Ashok Ferrey

Success - is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

Advertising, Marketing, PR can get more people to buy your book. Only great writing can get more people to love it. ~ Ashok K. Banker

The Only man can experience the glory of victory who have ever endured the failure ~ Ashok Kumar Gupta Jaycees

Chocolate is a vegetable. Honest. ~ Ashok K. Banker

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

There is more to life than just living. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

What kind of word is 'methodal'?" David asked. "A buzzword," Ashok answered, this time himself. "Methodal. Sounds like a drug." "That's what buzzwords are. Tranquilizers." "Thought suppressants, you mean. ~ Carolyn Ives Gilman

A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

When you are in a fix, often the fix is in you. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

Perfecting is a journey ... There is no destination called perfection. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

Follow your passion; Do not get married to it, though. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity. ~ Ashok Gangadean

In Sri Lanka, the people you lived amongst, the people you went to school with, the people in whose houses you ate, whose jokes you shared: these were not the people you married. Quite possibly they were not your religion. More to the point they were probably not your caste. This word with its fearsome connotations was never, hardly ever used. But it was ever present: it muddied the waters of Sri Lanka's politics, it perfumed the air of her bed-chambers; it lurked, like a particularly noxious relative, behind the poruwa of every wedding ceremony. It was the c-word. People used its synonym, its acronym, its antonym-indeed any other nym that came to mind - in the vain hope its meaning would somehow go away. It didn't. But if the people you chose to associate with were the very ones you could not marry, then the ones you did marry were quite often people you wouldn't dream of associating with if you had any choice in the matter. ~ Ashok Ferrey

A Revolution is always A Step in the Forward Direction benefiting the majority. ~ Ashok Khurana

In a race, what matters is not who started first, but who finished first. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

A mother makes her son gentle in 20 years.... But a girl makes him mental in 20 minutes ~ Ashok

The Light and the Darkness both flow in to Delhi. Gurgaon, where Mr. Ashok lived, is the bright, modern end of the city, and this place. Old Delhi is the other end. Full of things that the modern world forget all about rickshaws, old stone buildings and Muslims. On a Sunday, though, there is something more: if you keep pushing through the crowd that is always there, go past the men clearing the other men's ears by poking rusty metal rods into them, past the men selling small fish trapped in green bottles full of brine, past the cheap shoe market and the cheap shirt market, you come great secondhand book market Darya Ganj.
You may have heard of this market, sir, since it is one of the wonders of the world. Tens of thousands of dirty, rotting, blackened books on every subject- Technology, Medicine, Sexual Pleasure, Philosophy, Education, and Foreign Countries - heaped upon the pavement from Delhi Gate onwards all the way until you get to the market in front of the Red Fort. Some books are so old they crumble when you touch them; some have silverfish feasting on them- some look like they were retrieved from a flood, or from a fire. Most shops on the pavement are shuttered down; but the restaurants are still open, and the smell of fried food mingles with the smell of rotting paper. Rusting exhaust fans turn slowly in the ventilators of the restaurants like the wings of giant moths.
I went amid the books and sucked in the air; it was like oxygen after the stench of th ~ Aravind Adiga

No job is complete until the selfie is posted. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

They had lived down the road from each other as children. Everyday they walked home from school hand in hand; they were childhood sweethearts, they were bestfriends. And when they came of age, in the time-honoured Sri Lankan tradition they were given in marriage. To other people. ~ Ashok Ferrey

Beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder! ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

War has no winners and peace, no losers ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

You should always judge a book by its lovers. ~ Ashok K. Banker

One thing you will learn with experience of dealing with politicians, is never to be surprised at anything.

- The Linchpin, Pg. 72 ~ Neeraj Ashok

Failure is success in abeyance; but only for those who persevere. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

This world, I have often thought, would be so much a better place if only we took the trouble to misunderstand our enemies a little, give them the benefit of our doubt. In my short life I have found it never does to look too closely into the minds of people: let their actions speak louder than their words. And their inactions loudest of all. ~ Ashok Ferrey

How can one fall in love? For me, love can only be uplifting ... ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

I wish I were like Facebook; being able to 'like' and 'share' everything I get. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal