Top 100 Banerjee Quotes
#1. Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
Mamata Banerjee
#2. We 'can't' always 'cushion' our views..
'Soften' the stance..
'Straight Talk' involves least effort..
No 'beating about the bush'..
Say it as it is..
Ofcourse, stay ready to be unpopular!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#4. I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
Mamata Banerjee
#5. The 'absurdities' of life can either turn you into a 'philosopher' or a 'humorist'..
Both 'opposing' poles of the same scale, a matter of understanding..
Ideal, if we can slide down the scale this way and that...
Read somewhere..Philosophers get heard, Humorists get paid..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#6. If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#7. Don't let the fear of failure or failure as a whole stop you from becoming an entrepreneur. Failure doesn't define you or your business unless you allow it to.
Jeet Banerjee
#8. Solitude that throws the honest rays of perfect euphoria;
Solitude that makes me breathe in the real me;
Solitude I call it - my abode, my self made haven;
Solitude I call it - the sanguine face of Loneliness.
Debatrayee Banerjee
#9. Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
Mamata Banerjee
#10. A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#11. Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength
or else we die.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#12. Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#13. My constant endeavor is to know, believe, practise and prove that ' I ' am and will always be SUPERIOR to circumstance.
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#14. Are Human Problems insoluble? Human Chaos necessary?? Answer: Personally I refuse to have problems!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#16. Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#17. Open yourself to the sight, and it will show you what you need to know. But never attempt to bend it to your will. Never pry into a particular life that has been brought to your care. That is to break trust.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#19. Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you. Instrument,
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#20. When you move forward in life or move on with life..
Moving on from people is the most difficult and painful..
But probably the most 'necessary'..
One may have to leave behind many who's, what's, when's, where's and why's..
Imperative to maintaining forward momentum in life..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#22. In every siutation , there is a FINE LINE between what is right and what is not so right.THAT is the MOMENT when one has to stop and look which way to go!! These MAGICAL MOMENTS determine the DIRECTION of our lives !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#23. I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.
Jeet Banerjee
#24. When your sense of respect for others..
Your humility despite a chance at arrogance..
is MISCONSTRUED, MISUNDERSTOOD AND JUDGED..
Put a stop , pull the brakes..Some people do not deserve it!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#25. It works...conditioning your mind to see something positive in anything! Anything that happens to you, anything said to you, anything said about you.I have the choice to INTERPRET it in a way that is positive.Surefire way to imbibe Pollyana attitude !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#27. There are times when we RISE up to situations and recognise our INNER POWER,STRENTHS and CAPABILITY by the way we handled a siutation ! How about recognising ourselves,our POWER. our TALENT, our CAPABILITIES and then handle each situation from our BEST levels. The RESULTS are bound to be UP'd!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#28. Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#29. She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#30. Height of bad luck will be ... when I will dare to kiss a prince and he will turn into a frog.
Upasana Banerjee
#31. Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#33. NEVER make ISSUES out of things especially wth children...the moment they become ISSUES..they are most likely to stay in their heads as issues of their lives ! That is where most adult ISSUES come from.....
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#34. WE, are ALL the 'Questions'..
WE, are the ONLY 'Answers'...
And, EVERYTHING 'In Between'...
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#35. I Think and think ... And more thoughts line up to get processed.
Upasana Banerjee
#36. America is a country formed by diverse communities from different countries. Overall, the country is very hospitable and gives opportunities to grow. Saying that, I'd also say I'm not a 'white' immigrant; a South Asian's experience is different than, say, a European immigrant's.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#37. I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
Mamata Banerjee
#40. Love in NOT blind. It teaches you to be blind and overlook your partner's mistakes and shortcomings.
Reetwika Banerjee
#41. Its best to design your own life than living the default one.
Upasana Banerjee
#42. Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#43. I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#44. I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#45. The lift is about SPEED and COMFORT, but the stairs are about CERTAINTY! The lift may go wrong but stairs seldom do, you can always take the stairs. They are BOUND to take you UP and to the END as long as you continue to climb!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#46. I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#48. WOMEN..get the word 'Compromise' out of your lives..You are a 'Value Driver'..Be proud of that !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#49. The darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#50. She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#51. We need to pay as much attention to the MEANS, as to the END! This is the biggest principle of SUCCESS..The END is so enticing, that we lose sight of the details altogether..Success lies in the DETAILS!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#52. We welcome the Election Commission's announcement of a five-phase poll in the state. We will abide by all the guidelines and directives issued by the Commission.
Mamata Banerjee
#53. Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#54. The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#55. The toughest feeling is when you need to be emotionally sophisticated.
Upasana Banerjee
#56. Success has NO Rules except ONE..
It follows NO rules and most RULES are made on the way!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#57. SILENCE does not always mean 'NEUTRALITY'! Sometimes, it may mean 'consenting' to a wrong, sometimes it may mean 'condoning' a mistake and sometimes it may mean giving space to the wrong doer....SOMETIMES, we need to get up and FIGHT!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#58. India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#60. Human Dignity has five characteristics : A playful curiosity,a capacity for dreams, a sense of humor to achieve and correct those dreams, a certain flexibility and spontaenity of behavior, a capacity to fight for and save those dreams !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#61. Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as reality, an objective and untouched nature of being. Or if all that we encounter has already been changed by what we had imagined it to be. If we have dreamed it into being.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#62. There is nothing called 'Extraordinary', it is just the way the World defines an 'ordinary' man or woman , who has recognized his own 'power to achieve' the IMPOSSIBLE ! Let us be ORDINARY, but an 'aware' ordinary , aware of our own selves !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#63. Occassionally,hail the NaySayers too..
Somedays,their brilliance is just as admirable..
Just somedays..rest of the days...Drown......them!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#65. I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#66. There is always a balance between beauty and strength ... girls are getting stronger and guys are turning beautiful..
Upasana Banerjee
#67. Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him - into the very earth and air and water - until there's nothing else.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#68. Sentimental blackmailing is the melodrama done by heart over our brain.
Upasana Banerjee
#69. When we scream and shout inside our heart, deep silence prevails outside and often we are mistaken to be snobbish.
Upasana Banerjee
#70. Breath,Thoughts, Feelings and Words are precious..
Be ruthlessly aware so you never waste these..
Ruthless with yourself..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#71. And there you stand -
Far away from the distant reality,
Far away in my breathing dream,
Far away in the traces of my livid eyes,
Far away in my hostile fantasy.
Debatrayee Banerjee
#72. I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women.
Sushmita Banerjee
#73. Emotion ... a weird sense of human ... strong handling make us numb ... loose handling make us dumb ...
Upasana Banerjee
#76. There is a difference between Confidence and Arrogance..
Both look alike but stem from two very different sources..
One comes from Self Belief and the other comes from Ego..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#79. There are people who are 'toxic', then there are 'poisonous' people...
We find them in various degrees in critics, cynics, haters, fault finders, bullies, abusers, envious, jealous, insecure people..
What do we do to toxins and poison...is what we do to them as well..!!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#81. I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#83. Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#85. Sometime ... there should be outburst of words to avoid complication.
Upasana Banerjee
#86. Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#87. The choice they made in the moment of my need changed something in our relationship. I no longer depended on them so completely in the future. And when I took care to guard myself from hurt, it was as much from them as from our enemies.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#88. In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#90. Questioning' something is not 'rebellion'..
It's 'Common sense' just 'curious'..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#91. I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.
Jeet Banerjee
#94. Years pass by, calender pages change, and we realize the known past, sunshine clear present and the unpredictable future ...
#upasana
Upasana Banerjee
#95. After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#96. As I've written more, and as other Indian American voices have grown around me, I strive harder to find experiences that are unique yet a meaningful and resonant part of the American story.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#97. I think the greatest part about being an entrepreneur is the ability to create what you like and do it the way you want. You don't have to listen to anyone else or follow any instructions and that control is what entrepreneurship is all about.
Jeet Banerjee
#99. I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#100. In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
