“An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.”
“An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.”
Anurag Shourie
“There is nothing more agonising than the memory of good times when you are going through a difficult period in life. Life moves in only one direction - forward, but the memoirs of years gone by keep on haunting one’s soul till the time one is alive. Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon’s knife.”
Anurag Shourie“Take it easy. Live life- one day at a time. It is only when we add the regrets of 'yesterday' and worries of the 'future' to the 'present' that we end up complicating things...”
Anurag Shourie“Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.”
Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow“Marcus Brutus was the original tragic hero of the play ‘Julius Caesar’, Aditya concluded. Perhaps, Shakespeare should have named his play ‘Marcus Brutus’. But then again, it all must have boiled down to saleability and marketing; Julius Caesar being the more famous and thus bankable name. Ironical it was, Aditya smiled. The same Shakespeare had once said-‘What’s in a name...”
Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow“Death is the only certainty in life. The moment we are born, our journey towards our final destination begins. It’s the beauty or the ugliness of that journey that defines our life; the distances covered varying in each case. Every flower that has bloomed in the free breeze of spring has to wither in the cruel icy autumn draught.”
Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow“Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.”
Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow“Not very tall, not very dark but very...very handsome,’ was his way of describing himself.”
Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow“A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.”
Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow“There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.”
Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow“An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.”
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