Ashoka Best Quotes

#1. Society shall never make progress unless it changes its basic objective of making things easier;instead our main objective should be to make men stronger!I say "men" as women have always had and shall continue to have all the strength needed!!-Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad(Woods oration-2008)

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

#2. Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.

Ashoka

#3. I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

Meg Rosoff

#4. To become truly human,one has to try an release oneself from the shackles of race,religion and nationality.The quantum of humanism one acquires is inevitably filtered when one limits oneself.-Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad(Kant Lecture,20090)

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

#5. It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

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#6. My holy of holies in the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love and absolute freedom-freedom from force and falsehood.

Anton Chekhov

#7. Ash. It's short for Ashoka."
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"A hero's name."
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"I'm not a hero."
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"Then we will make you one, Ashoka.

Sarwat Chadda

#8. I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.

Anita Baker

#9. Heaven is no permanent abode of morons even though they may gain entry by sheer virtuosity of their deeds.Ashoka Prasad(Hegelian Lecture)

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

#10. I firmly believed that with the breadth of knowledge now makes it impossible for someone to be a polymath in the 20th century-until I met Dr.Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad.

Abdus Salam

#11. She leaned forward and put her warm, smooth lips against his. They lingered there and Ash felt a shiver run right through his body. In a good way. A very good way. He could get used to this.
"May the gods protect you, Ashoka Mistry," she whispered.

Sarwat Chadda

#12. The right to life of a woman should not be contingent on her obedience of social norms and traditions.A.Prasad(Venkat Seminar )

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

#13. We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.

Bill Drayton

#14. No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger!!

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

#15. While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country.

Paul Gillmor

#16. Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice.

Snoop Dogg

#17. I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

Danny Wallace

#18. Get back on that bike.

Sarah Dessen

#19. Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

Dizzy Dean

#20. Ashoka's dilemma is the dilemma of civilization itself. As society developed and weaponry became more deadly, the empire, founded on and maintained by violence, would paradoxically become the most effective means of keeping the peace.

Karen Armstrong

#21. And you know what happens when a bomb goes off? The truth about people comes out. Men leave their children and run away. Shopkeepers push aside wives and try to save their cash. People come and loot the shops. A blast reveals the truth about places. Don't forget what you're doing is noble.

Karan Mahajan

#22. It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan

Tuhin A. Sinha

#23. Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!

Mandy Patinkin

#24. May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.

Ashoka

#25. He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.

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