Top 100 A P J Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About A P J

#1. - If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first Attempt In Learning"
- End is not the end, if fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies"
- If you get No as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity".
So Let's be positive. "Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam of feel LIFE

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#2. Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. Political rhetoric alone does not build a nation unless it is backed by the power of sacrifice, toil and virtue.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#4. You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.

J.P. Donleavy

#5. The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#8. Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#9. I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

A.J.P. Taylor

#11. say that a good student could learn more from a bad teacher than a poor

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#12. Failure will never overtake me if my definition to succeed is strong enough

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#13. For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#14. My glance fell upon a beautiful flower;
the universe turned around her.
- Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent

P.J. Parker

#15. What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. Wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#17. I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.

Duncan Sheik

#18. Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#19. In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

J.P. Moreland

#20. A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

P. J. O'Rourke

#21. I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

P.J. Harvey

#22. If something is at stake, the human mind gets ignited and the working capacity gets enhanced manifold. This is one of the techniques of building talent. It is important to work hard towards your chosen path - success is more a function of effort than anything else. A

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#23. To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

P. J. O'Rourke

#24. Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.

P. J. O'Rourke

#25. My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#26. I made a fortune getting out too soon.

J. P. Morgan

#27. Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

A.J.P. Taylor

#28. If there's a sickness in America, it's the lack of materialism.

J.P. Donleavy

#29. Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

P. J. O'Rourke

#30. [P]eople are insubstantial. They never last. All this fuss, it's all fuss about nothing. We're here for a while and then we're gone. People are insubstantial. They never last at all.

J.G. Farrell

#31. I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#32. Came. Despite the huge challenge, it was also a project right after my heart and fired my imagination too. We moved from the design

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#33. I can suck the chrome off a bumper and leave the car still standing. In other words, I am sexually gifted, a hero among gay men.

J.P. Barnaby

#34. A nation with a strong base in science and technology is a nation with a strong backbone. By

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#35. Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

P. J. O'Rourke

#36. There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

P. J. O'Rourke

#37. Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke

#38. 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?

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#39. It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

P. J. O'Rourke

#40. There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.

P. J. O'Rourke

#41. It's hard to walk in the dress, it's not easy
I'm swinging over like a heavy loaded fruit tree

P.J. Harvey

#42. Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny".

P. J. Peters

#43. Fortunately, I discovered journalism. Talent hasn't been a question since. But

P. J. O'Rourke

#44. Great inspiration makes great scientists.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#45. Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light's father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.

P.J. Parker

#46. Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

J. P. Morgan

#47. British. My mother

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#48. The greatest danger to our sense of unity and our sense of purpose comes from those ideologists who seek to divide the people.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#49. I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

P. J. O'Rourke

#50. Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#51. There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

P.J. Harvey

#52. Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#53. I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

P.J. Harvey

#54. The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.
'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.

J.P. Donleavy

#55. You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

P. J. O'Rourke

#56. We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#57. Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

P. J. O'Rourke

#58. Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

P. J. O'Rourke

#59. Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

P. J. O'Rourke

#60. I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

P. J. O'Rourke

#61. Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#62. My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

P.J. Harvey

#63. 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

P. J. Soles

#64. Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things ... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

P. J. O'Rourke

#65. People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

P. J. O'Rourke

#66. Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

J.P. Donleavy

#67. There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

A.J.P. Taylor

#68. I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.

P. J. O'Rourke

#69. We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

P. J. O'Rourke

#70. Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

P. J. O'Rourke

#71. There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#72. Never apologize for someone you love, he says quietly. It makes you look like a prick.

J.P. Delaney

#73. Love is a succession of the smallest things that add up to be everything

P.J. Bayliss

#74. One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#75. War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#76. There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

P. J. O'Rourke

#77. Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

P. J. O'Rourke

#78. In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'

Claude Simon

#79. You two have sex every time you look at each other; sleeping together is just a formality you haven't gotten around to yet.

P.J. Tracy

#80. What hell does is recognize that people have intrinsic value. If God loves intrinsic value, then he has go to be a sustainer of persons, because that means he is a sustainer of intrinsic value.

J.P. Moreland

#81. Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#82. No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a homunculus.

J.P. Mac

#83. If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#84. The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

P. J. O'Rourke

#85. Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

P. J. O'Rourke

#86. The web is just a device by which bad ideas travel around the globe at the speed of light.

P. J. O'Rourke

#87. The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

P. J. O'Rourke

#88. The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".

J. P. McEvoy

#89. We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue ... that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,

Alain J. P. Belda

#90. You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

J. P. Morgan

#91. In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

P. J. O'Rourke

#92. I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

P. J. O'Rourke

#93. The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

A.J.P. Taylor

#94. that a lot of what happens in our lives is predetermined and that the only way forward is to accept what has happened and to move on. Who knew, perhaps what destiny had in store would be better than what one is grieving over now.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam