Lakhs Quotes

#1. Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen
that nearly causes bloodshed.

Vikram Seth

#2. Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams could be worth lakhs.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

#3. There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

Jacqueline Carey

#4. The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

Hiroya Oku

#5. I become drunk as circumstances dictate.

Jack Vance

#6. Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

Albert Gallatin

#7. Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They're so ... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

Ann Demeulemeester

#8. Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique.

Nita Leland

#9. I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

Lauren Groff

#10. I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

Kristin Davis

#11. These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

James McNerney