Vikram Amar quote: "Unless a legislature passes a bill testing the opinion, there is no way to know if the court's opinion has changed. They can't signal a change of attitude without a vehicle for it."

If the trial court was wrong in letting her serve as her own counsel, that's not a mistake that's im...
VIKRAM AMAR

A parade is defined by who is in it. Its identity consists of who is in it. The inclusion of any pol...
VIKRAM AMAR

At one level this is a very technical, dry case about when deference is owed (to an executive interp...
VIKRAM AMAR

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.
AMAR BOSE

I didn't think it was that bad when I was playing in the playoffs or working out this summer. But it...
AMAR STOUDEMIRE

I'm handling it pretty well. I'm just trying to really focus on rehabbing hard.
AMAR STOUDEMIRE

It's always a great thing to expand your fan base. That helps the players, it helps the team and it ...
AMAR STOUDEMIRE

It's not over, man. I still feel we can win the ring. I'm going to bounce back stronger than ever.
AMAR STOUDEMIRE

Let the Union Cabinet speak with one voice over the issue and then we will react. There are major di...
AMAR SINGH

The shot fired by Sonia Gandhi struck herself.
AMAR SINGH

What's the point of resigning after they have been exposed.
AMAR SINGH

I was the first person to offer resignation on this issue but no one (media) termed it sacrifice.
AMAR SINGH

I believe that there are 44 similar complaints against highly respected people in important position...
AMAR SINGH

There is confusion regarding the position of the External Affairs Minister. We are trying for the me...
AMAR SINGH

I say all sorts of things on that line. When they produce a tape with me abusing on that phone I wil...
AMAR SINGH

The biggest challenge facing the club is how to get youths interested in sport. Many youngsters pref...
AMAR SINGH

It is a shame that the Congress party is describing their president Sonia Gandhi's resignation from ...
AMAR SINGH

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to ...
AMAR BOSE

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.
AMAR BOSE

I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.
AMAR BOSE

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I neede...
AMAR BOSE

I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will g...
AMAR BOSE

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.
AMAR BOSE

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.
AMAR BOSE

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disci...
AMAR BOSE

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I starte...
AMAR BOSE

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence...
AMAR BOSE

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half...
AMAR BOSE

There has been a shift in marketing focus over the last few years. Women are now not simply spenders...
AMAR ZAHID

But it does not mean we should risk lives of people. We cannot measure everything in terms of profit...
AMAR SINHA

We will not sale the drug as it may lead to some people going berserk and creating law and order pro...
AMAR SINHA

We have already softened our stand and asked the management to bring down the pension benefit to the...
AMAR PAL

We are seeking a commitment from the chairman and will call off the strike if we are given an assura...
AMAR PAL

A lot of people mistakenly think that we're saying that the price of a house rose 3.9 percent, which...
AMAR MANN

The Bay Area's most heavily represented industries here are in management of companies and enterpris...
AMAR MANN

Out of the 27 metropolitan areas that we keep information on, San Diego had the eighth-highest rise ...
AMAR MANN

Increasingly, we are seeing demand from our customers to offer a complete, integrated solution for b...
AMAR HANSPAL

I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I wi...
AMAR BOSE

Nobody is entitled to RESPECT. Respect must be earned continuously
AMAR RANDHAWA

If you wish to achieve something and THINK its not achievable…..don’t waste your time and move o...
AMAR RANDHAWA

Person should learn something new every day; consider it a waste of the day, the day goes without le...
AMAR RANDHAWA

Everyone calls a successful person a genius; every genius who’s not successful people call him mad
AMAR RANDHAWA

People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do. That which you tolerate, yo...
AMAR RANDHAWA

People won't be successful if you don't let them; people will be successful if you are positive and ...
AMAR RANDHAWA

Your workmanship, services and innovation is what pays the wages; not the employer.
AMAR RANDHAWA

The period before the deluge was the one of revelation in the Mesopotamian mythology, when the basis...
AMAR ANNUS

I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku...
VIKRAM SETH

When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened,...
VIKRAM SETH

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform...
VIKRAM SETH

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, wh...
VIKRAM SETH

You can talk good ideas out of existence.
VIKRAM SETH

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
VIKRAM SETH

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of...
VIKRAM SETH

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
VIKRAM SETH

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the curre...
VIKRAM SETH

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
VIKRAM SETH

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying on...
VIKRAM SETH

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time t...
VIKRAM SETH

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story,...
VIKRAM SETH

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
VIKRAM SETH

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or ...
VIKRAM SETH

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
VIKRAM SETH

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
VIKRAM SETH

I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or wat...
VIKRAM SETH

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are alre...
VIKRAM SETH

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
VIKRAM SETH

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
VIKRAM SETH

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
VIKRAM SETH

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETH

There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experien...
VIKRAM PATEL

I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend m...
VIKRAM PATEL

In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million p...
VIKRAM PATEL

I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Pri...
VIKRAM PATEL

No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
VIKRAM PATEL

It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental...
VIKRAM PATEL

I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dism...
VIKRAM PATEL

Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do thin...
VIKRAM PATEL

Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressa...
VIKRAM PATEL

I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from ...
VIKRAM PATEL

Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There,...
VIKRAM PATEL

Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic...
VIKRAM PATEL

In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition...
VIKRAM PATEL

I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.
VIKRAM PATEL

I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind...
VIKRAM PATEL

The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the r...
VIKRAM PATEL

In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing ...
VIKRAM PATEL

Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who ...
VIKRAM PATEL

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem...
VIKRAM PATEL

Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a ro...
VIKRAM PATEL

If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committin...
VIKRAM PATEL

There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professio...
VIKRAM PATEL

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don&...
VIKRAM CHATWAL

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I w...
VIKRAM CHATWAL

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

I believe in numbers and signs.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual as...
VIKRAM CHATWAL

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETH

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives ra...
VIKRAM SETH

Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health pr...
VIKRAM PATEL

The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health probl...
VIKRAM PATEL

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
VIKRAM CHATWAL

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
VIKRAM SETH

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and au...
VIKRAM SETH

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and co...
VIKRAM SETH

India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, ...
VIKRAM PATEL

There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as b...
VIKRAM PATEL

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as s...
VIKRAM SETH

It was a good wicket for the two days we played. We were fortunate enough to win the toss and post a...
VIKRAM SOLANKI

The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.
VIKRAM CHANDRA

What could my mother be
to yours? What kin is my father
to yours anyway? And how
did ...
VIKRAM CHANDRA

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the e...
VIKRAM SETH

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, ask...
VIKRAM SETH

Romantic retrospect aside, the night spent in the truck is distinctly unpleasant. We are cramped and...
VIKRAM SETH

In a double biography, an intertwined meditation, where the author is an anomalous third braid, some...
VIKRAM SETH

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been ...
VIKRAM SETH

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostal...
VIKRAM SETH

Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to spl...
VIKRAM SETH

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I hav...
VIKRAM SETH

If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tack...
VIKRAM SETH

I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot...
VIKRAM SETH

Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.'
'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of ot...
VIKRAM CHANDRA

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,
Or fares, or one thing or another,
How...
VIKRAM SETH

But what should I do?' Varun was saying. 'I'm not good for anything.'
'Write a book! Pull a ric...
VIKRAM SETH

ghazal that he had heard Saeeda Bai sing, but, oddly,
VIKRAM SETH

What I mean is,’ continued Amit, ‘it sprouts, and grows, and spreads, and drops down branches th...
VIKRAM SETH

There was just enough room for the tonga to get through among the bullock-carts, rickshaws, cycles a...
VIKRAM SETH

I triumph and rejoice that my action should have obtained your approval; nor am I disturbed when I h...
VIKRAM SETH

I'm not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I'm a hedgehog.
VIKRAM SETH

Wherever his faltering mind,
unsteadily wanders,
he should restrain it
and bring it u...
VIKRAM SETH

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols...
VIKRAM SETH

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, th...
VIKRAM SETH

There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now.

VIKRAM SETH

He had come to a decision about the next step in his life. This decision was irrevocable unless he c...
VIKRAM SETH

I've always felt that the performance of a raag resembles a novel - or at least the kind of novel I'...
VIKRAM SETH

The Fever Bird

The fever bird sand out last night.
I could not sleep, try as I might...
VIKRAM SETH

The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.
VIKRAM SETH

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show)...
VIKRAM SETH

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this ...
VIKRAM SETH

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
VIKRAM SETH

Man without life companion is either god or beast.
VIKRAM SETH

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
VIKRAM SETH

You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.'
VIKRAM SETH

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters mig...
VIKRAM SETH

She was quite pretty too in those days; indeed, perhaps she still was. But for some reason none of h...
VIKRAM SETH

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
VIKRAM SETH

We are about 30 percent of the market [for blade server switches], making us one of the largest [ven...
VIKRAM MEHTA

After the tour to Pakistan, we just thought we'll take some time off and spend it here. I had hoped ...
VIKRAM SOLANKI

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a s...
AMAR GOPAL BOSE

Always follow your dreams, never look behind, hold your head up high and walk to the sky.
AMAR ACE PATTI

When you love life passionately, a cloud of beauty floats above, adding an array of wonders to even ...
AVRA AMAR FILION

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and t...
AVRA AMAR FILION

But in reality, with Mr. Ellison there is an essence of probity about him; unlike Dorian Grey, him a...
AVRA AMAR FILION

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talente...
VIKRAM ROHIT SHETTY

My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was a...
VIKRAM ROHIT SHETTY

I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre ...
VIKRAM ROHIT SHETTY

In this so called high-society there is value of a dress but not of a person.
So give me less f...
VIKRAM SINGH SLATHIA

Without a Uniform Civil Code, labelling India be Secular nation is just a illusion.

Unifo...
VIKRAM SINGH SLATHIA

Sometime I want to talk, and you all are there but words are not.
VIKRAM SINGH SLATHIA

Unless a legislature passes a bill testing the opinion, there is no way to know if the court's opinion has changed. They can't signal a change of attitude without a vehicle for it.

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Unless a legislature passes a bill testing the opinion, there is no way to know if the court's opinion has changed. They can't signal a change of attitude without a vehicle for it.

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