Mishra Quotes

#1. When talking of political addresses in Bihar, two of them stand out. One is that of Sadaqat Ashram, the famous Congress address of yore, and the other that of Patna house of the three-time Congress chief minister, Dr Jagannath Mishra, perhaps the last vestige of the grand, old party in Bihar.

Santosh Singh

#2. In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!

Orhan Pamuk

#3. Love is when you don't care about your feelings but care for & respect the feelings and value of the one you love

Anamika Mishra

#4. Sometimes its better to take a leap of faith

Anamika Mishra

#5. Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

Pankaj Mishra

#6. Matters of the heart are so incalculable!

Pawan Mishra

#7. The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless.

Pankaj Mishra

#8. One of the things people did best at the office was to use flexibility to its last atom.

Pawan Mishra

#9. Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

Pankaj Mishra

#10. Love is not blind. Infatuation is blind. Love is all-seeing and still accepting.

Anamika Mishra

#11. German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

Pankaj Mishra

#12. The memory of his voice made her feel warm and happy, though she could not explain why

Anamika Mishra

#13. An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

Pankaj Mishra

#14. After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.

Pankaj Mishra

#15. Good use of time is the universal ingredient in cooking a palatable dish - doesn't matter if you are baking, boiling, frying, brewing, or grilling.

Pawan Mishra

#16. There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.

Pawan Mishra

#17. My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

Pankaj Mishra

#18. For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

Pankaj Mishra

#19. To his shock, as Saarang turned the first page, the words slowly transformed into small cylinders, except for one-letter words which preferred being spheres, and started rolling toward the vertical edges of the book.

Pawan Mishra

#20. I write because I always want good to win over evil

Anamika Mishra

#21. When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.

Pankaj Mishra

#22. Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Pankaj Mishra

#23. Most of a husband's life is spent in doing research on his wife.

Pawan Mishra

#24. It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.

Pawan Mishra

#25. The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Pankaj Mishra

#26. Make Your wish Your Dream and Your Dream Your Goal; Your goal should be your passion to turn your wish into a reality

Ankit Mishra

#27. A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments.

Pawan Mishra

#28. I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.

Pankaj Mishra

#29. Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs - and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.

Pawan Mishra

#30. While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn't necessarily produce the best outcomes.

Pawan Mishra

#31. Had we not decided to perform this as gracefully as a dancer's leap? But we turned it into a dinosaur's dance party!

Pawan Mishra

#32. Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules

Anamika Mishra

#33. The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.

Pawan Mishra

#34. Her happiness flowed into every word in the song giving it new life

Anamika Mishra

#35. Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

Pankaj Mishra

#36. You aren't in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?

Pawan Mishra

#37. Believe in things impossible, love the magic of a place, mystery in a person, passion in a relationship and seek adventures in life.. Live the life don't go through it..

Anubhav Mishra

#38. I write because I know world I create is much beautiful than the world I live in

Anamika Mishra

#39. It seems God has been practicing shooting troubles at me.

Pawan Mishra

#40. I meditate at airports because those are the places where I'm extremely tense, and I often meditate while I'm walking down the street. I have a thought and become aware of that thought and thereby create another level of awareness.

Pankaj Mishra

#41. I write because it's a beautiful habit

Anamika Mishra

#42. As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.

Pankaj Mishra

#43. Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide with the self-interest of the rest of the world. That's inevitable.

Pankaj Mishra

#44. I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have to compare yourself to the best and feel totally inadequate.

Pankaj Mishra

#45. So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.

Pankaj Mishra

#46. It's impossible to know everything about everything but the real pleasure lies in knowing something about everything

Anubhav Mishra

#47. Easy accessibility gradually tapers engrossment.

Pawan Mishra

#48. There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end being a utopia of happiness that we'll reach through socialism or free trade or democracy, and then it will all be wonderful.

Pankaj Mishra

#49. I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

Pankaj Mishra

#50. As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

Pankaj Mishra

#51. The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.

Pawan Mishra

#52. When the world around is ready to back one unconditionally, one can become as unreasonable, unfair, and coldly sadistic as one likes.

Pawan Mishra

#53. We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind.

Pawan Mishra

#54. Never settle up for something that is lesser than what you expected.

Anamika Mishra

#55. I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

Pankaj Mishra

#56. If only he could convince her, his dream would be within reach

Anamika Mishra

#57. The most wonderful and amazing people are those, who are true to themselves ...

Anamika Mishra

#58. Love is not about the Dimples on the Cheeks but it is about the Heart that Beats

Anamika Mishra

#59. Shri Bhagvan said: Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance should not be renounced but must certainly be performed, for these three - sacrifice, charity and penance - purify even the great souls.

J.S. Mishra

#60. I write because I know magic happens

Anamika Mishra

#61. In order to live the life of your dreams, first you will have to dream!

Anamika Mishra

#62. As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity.

Pankaj Mishra

#63. Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.

Pankaj Mishra

#64. If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

Pankaj Mishra

#65. O woman, thou art my imperfection!

Pawan Mishra

#66. To think that land reform is going to somehow automatically create an equitable system, I think that's just wrong. It's a very technical view of the world.

Pankaj Mishra

#67. I need to offer a sacred water sacrifice at the porcelain altar.

Pawan Mishra

#68. Love is not about making promises but it's about believing, no matter how far you are or how frequently you talk, you know you both are made for each other

Anamika Mishra

#69. Most people turn things like elections into a fetish and think it's the only way to go: if we just keep giving people the vote, that'll solve all our problems. In the end, that's just a silly, infantile notion.

Pankaj Mishra

#70. There are times when people will love you for who you are ... Then there are times when people will love you for what you are!!

Anamika Mishra

#71. A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.

Pawan Mishra

#72. Girls, well, when God was coding their speech pattern, he deliberately left out the brevity parameter. He probably had a good laugh, and did the needful to the other kind to maintain the balance.

Rajat Mishra

#73. With time, the hurt would begin to fade away, but not the memories.

Anamika Mishra

#74. Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.

Pankaj Mishra

#75. Villagers took her sudden death as a curse of verdict stone....

Jalaj Mishra

#76. It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.

Pankaj Mishra

#77. Live to the fullest, with no regrets in your heart

Anamika Mishra

#78. Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!

Pawan Mishra

#79. I write because I want to fall in love with love over and over again

Anamika Mishra

#80. A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind.

Pawan Mishra

#81. Since 1857 we know what we are capable of,
And Since 1947 we know what is at Stake.

Ankit Mishra

#82. Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

Pankaj Mishra

#83. They are a family of cows - so humble and honest.

Pawan Mishra

#84. Psychos are in uniform circulation in society.

Pawan Mishra

#85. One of the biggest disadvantages of being grown up is seeing the time rush by faster.

Pawan Mishra

#86. I think so much
may be it never ends
when this night ends
there's another at hand
I sleep with one
and wake with one
with everything else on
this life goes on.

Jyoti Mishra

#87. Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

Pankaj Mishra

#88. Life is iffy. We never know when it might pull the plug (we don't know opponent's strategy), so we should live and enjoy every moment to its fullest (minimize losses.
Enjoy this moment - this, this very moment. Live today, as if there's no tomorrow.

Rajat Mishra

#89. I love this constant motion between ' Solitude' and ' Loneliness '. On one end it's the desire and achievement of being alone ( glorious) on the other it's the utter despair and pain of being alone..

Anubhav Mishra

#90. The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

Pankaj Mishra

#91. As long as you know that the permission to ask does not include the right to get an answer.

Pawan Mishra

#92. Depression is a reality with everyone. What's important is the ability to move on.

Pawan Mishra

#93. This is where the whole thing entered into a vicious cycle, for her proximity always inebriated the hearts, thus only deepening their desire to remain hostages in the cage so that they could booze even more on that beauty.

Pawan Mishra

#94. In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.

Pawan Mishra

#95. The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.

Pawan Mishra

#96. The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.

Pankaj Mishra

#97. There is always a next time

Anamika Mishra

#98. Each life is yet another chance given to humanity, but it was not even a half a chance in Coinman's case.

Pawan Mishra

#99. Focus on what you are and what you can rather than what others aren't & can't. You have to win; they don't necessarily have to lose for you!

Alok Mishra

#100. Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

Pankaj Mishra