Quotes of Indium - somelinesforyou

“ Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls. ”

- Rajiv Gandhi

“ We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage. ”

- Abdul Kalam

“ In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife. ”

- Spike Milligan

“ Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. ”

- Elisabeth Kubler Ross

“ In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India. ”

- Henry Brooke

“ My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. ”

- Indira Gandhi

“ One has to fill up the heart with Knowledge. The Knowledge has a form that's called 'upadesh'. There are many countries such as England, Germany, and India, but Knowledge is not this kind of country. This country is something different. Knowledge is the thing that when it is realized, a person becomes free. ”

- Prem Rawat

“ I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood. ”

- Douglas Hyde

“ Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? ”

- Abdul Kalam

“ The mouth is always wrong on a portrait, you know. But in India, they all commented mostly on just one thnig, their color. I had no idea that skin color was so important there. But everyone I painted in that country thought I made them look too dark. ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ”

- James Cameron

“ In India, cold weather is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. ”

- Jules Verne

“ I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence…I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour… ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India. ”

- Amitabh Bachchan

“ I've recently bought a mini iPod. And because I travel on public transport it's proving a good way to listen to music again. Most recently I've been listening to what is called nu-soul: American singers such as Jill Scott, Angie Stone, India Arie and Erykah Badu. ”

- Diane Abbott

“ In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations … If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world. ”

- Walter Wink

“ In India when we meet and part we often say, Namaste, which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us?. ”

- Ram Dass
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