Subhransu Roy Quotes

Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world. ~ Bunker Roy

The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations. ~ Aruna Roy

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know. ~ Roy Barnes

As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, she would be stopped mid-sentence for five seconds by a doubt which, if expressed in words, might have come out something like this: "Maybe I'm just a crazy lady who had wandered off the street and into this classroom and started explaining the mysteries of life to these people. And they believe me, although I am utterly mistaken about simply everything."
She had to wonder, too, about all the supposedly great teachers of the past, who, although their brains were healthy, had turned out to be as wrong as Roy about what was really going on. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes ... man I dug. ~ Roy Eldridge

Roy has always sincerely believed what everyone else believed at the moment. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down. ~ Gabrielle Roy

People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason. ~ Roy Saputra

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth. ~ Roy Barnes

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me. ~ Arundhati Roy

I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy. ~ Roy Keane

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good. ~ Roy Jenkins

The sky was thick with TV. If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds - blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d'état, hairstyles stiff with hair spray. Designer pectorals. Gliding towards Ayemenem like skydivers. Making patterns in the sky. Wheels. Windmills. Flowers blooming and unblooming. ~ Arundhati Roy

Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied. ~ Roy Bennett

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside. ~ Arundhati Roy

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot. ~ Drew Roy

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors. ~ Arundhati Roy

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning. ~ Roy Haynes

No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome. ~ Roy Lessin

A good book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

Art is not about beauty, art is an expression. ~ Vikram Roy

Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to play the trumpet but the way to choose the notes, how to play them and how to phrase all of them, I took that from Sweets [Edison]. He really brought something new to the trumpet. ~ Dizzy Gillespie

The best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life. ~ Roy H. Williams

[James vowed again to] use the National Guard and state troopers to prevent the removal [of Judge Roy Moore's Commandments display]. ~ Fob James

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily. ~ Arundhati Roy

At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody. ~ Arundhati Roy

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. ~ Arundhati Roy

Medieval chroniclers
recording events of
their time could not
but reflect the
views of the reigning monarch.
As a writer of historical novels, I attempt
not only to tell
a good story
but to unravel that historical data
and seek the
truth within. ~ Roy Stedall-Humphryes

Roy: "Looks like it's starting to rain" Riza: "But..It's not raining ... " Roy: "Yes it is. This is the rain. ~ Hiromu Arakawa

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. ~ Roy Bean

I know if you hold on tight to faith and memories, they'll always be with you. ~ Roy Johansen

What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a single street? Or it's all a line of dive bars on some wharf front? What the hell, let's call reading the collection a pub crawl, but with words. ~ Roy Kesey

Power's not what the Constitution was about. ~ Roy Moore

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth. ~ Gabrielle Roy

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed. ~ Roy Bean

Stage 13 was, then, a toy shop, a magic chest, a sorcerer's trunk, a trick manufactory, and an aerial hangar of dreams at the center of which Roy stood each day, waving his long piano fingers at mythic beasts to stir them, whispering, in the ten-billion-year slumbers. ~ Ray Bradbury

Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up, prideful intelligence has outstripped our instinct for survival and the road back to safety has already been washed away. In which case there's nothing much to be done. If there is something to be done, then one thing is for sure: those who created the problem will not be the ones who come up with a solution. ~ Arundhati Roy

The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains. ~ Arundhati Roy

human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to. You ~ Arundhati Roy

Samuel Smiles ends his book with the following moving story of the "gentleman" general:

The gentleman is characterized by his sacrifice of self, and preference of others, in the little daily occurrences of life…we may cite the anecdote of the gallant Sir Ralph Abercromby, of whom it is related, that, when mortally wounded in the battle of Aboukir, and, to ease his pain, a soldier's blanket was placed under his head, from which he experienced considerable relief.
He asked what it was.
"It's only a soldier's blanket," was the reply.
"Whose blanket is it?" said he, half lifting himself up.
"Only one of the men's."
"I wish to know the name of the man whose blanket this is."
"It is Duncan Roy's, of the 42nd, Sir Ralph."
"Then see that Duncan Roy gets his blanket this very night."

Even to ease his dying agony the general would not deprive the private soldier of his blanket for one night.
As Samuel wrote: "True courage and gentleness go hand in hand."
It was in this family, belief system, and heritage that Walter, my great-grandfather, grew up and dared to dream. ~ Bear Grylls

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear. ~ Roy Bennett

What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three. ~ Roy H. Williams

People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It. ~ George Roy Hill

Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you. ~ Roy Harper