Top 100 Narayan Quotes
#1. I'll be in # Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location hunting. I want to lock the locations before Christmas as everyone goes into vacation mode after that,
Pooja Bhatt
#2. I've gained a lot from James Joyce, Tolstoy, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to see if the story is going to radiate spokes. Their literature has always done that and gifted me beautiful things.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#3. The RSS's Awadh Prant Sanghchalak Prabhu Narayan Srivastava on Friday said Christians and Muslims were not to blame for the conversion of Hindus.
Anonymous
#4. I came in several times and spoke, but perhaps you were asleep when I thought you were awake.'
'You are very considerate to explain it this way,' Sugreeva said, 'but I was drunk
R.K. Narayan
#5. OUR SUCCESS IN THIS MORTAL LIFE IS JUDGED BY HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HAVE FOOLED THROUGHOUT.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#6. You threw a stone into a gutter it would only spurt filth in your face.
R.K. Narayan
#7. Good business outcomes are testable, valuable, independently achievable, and negotiable (TVIN). As
Sriram Narayan
#8. OUR SUCCESS IN THIS MORTAL WORLD IS JUDGED BY HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HAVE FOOLED EACH DAY.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#10. Past is gone, present is going, and tomorrow is day after tomorrow's yesterday. So why worry about anything? God is in all this.
R.K. Narayan
#11. Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show, will give them mental nutrition.
Narayan
#12. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.
R.K. Narayan
#13. He created for us to destroy, we created for him to destroy,in the end it was nature which suffered
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#14. Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
R.K. Narayan
#15. You become [a] writer by writing. It is a yoga.
R.K. Narayan
#16. Do you realize how few ever really understand how fortunate they are in their circumstances?
R.K. Narayan
#17. If intellect could be acquired from books, nobody would have been more intellectual than a book monger.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#18. But it was like hiding a corpse. I've come to the conclusion that nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun.
R.K. Narayan
#19. people only follow their inclinations, and sooner or later find their reward or retribution. That's the natural law of life,
R.K. Narayan
#20. This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down ...
R.K. Narayan
#22. At this moment, let us not forget that my authority has been challenged not by a warrior but by a monkey!
R.K. Narayan
#23. There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh...
Narayan Liu
#24. It is stimulating to live in a society that is not standardized or mechanized, and is free from monotony.
R.K. Narayan
#26. We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
R.K. Narayan
#27. Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#28. Nonviolence presupposes a level of humanness--however low it may be, in every human being.
Narayan Desai
#29. Then there was Mani, the Mighty Good-For-Nothing. He towered above all the other boys of the class. He seldom brought any books to the class, and never bothered about homework. He came to the class, monopolized the last bench, ans slept bravely. No teacher ever tried to prod him.
R.K. Narayan
#30. All our thought process should be concentrated on merger of soul with the vital life. When this realisation is achieved, it leads the soul from Atma to Paramatma, one in poccession of all.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#31. Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more.
R.K. Narayan
#32. What can we do with a creature who returns to his doom with such a free heart?
R.K. Narayan
#34. The only trouble was that the scripture master, Mr. Ebenzar, was a fanatic.
R.K. Narayan
#35. The gods grow jealous of too much contentment anywhere, and they show their displeasure all of a sudden.
R.K. Narayan
#36. Remember, when you are in the wrong career, you cannot be the best.
B. K. Narayan
#37. Don't use pencil, for writing on your lover's heart it might erase. Always use ball point pen.
Biranchi Narayan
#38. 4816OPEN YOUR HEART AND SOUL TO CONSTANT SHOWERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIGHT BY DIVING DEEP INSIDE THE CORE OF YOUR HEART.HE IS TALKING SO LISTEN WITH OPEN HEART.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#39. Life is about making right things and going on..
R.K. Narayan
#40. All the jarring, rattling and clanking, spurting and hissing of the moving train of the train dissolved in the distance into something that was half a sob and half a sigh.
R.K. Narayan
#41. In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.
Narayan
#42. When i see ahead,its dark, when i see behind, its dark. It's only my present which is bright, thus darkening everything beyond and behind.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#43. The next three days I was very busy. My table was placed in the front room of the new house. All my papers and books were arranged neatly. My clothes hung on a peg. The rest of the house was swept and cleaned.
R.K. Narayan
#44. Every minute becomes a yesterday and is lost forever.
R.K. Narayan
#45. Every creature is born with a potential store of violence.
R.K. Narayan
#46. Instead of a central finance function tracking if funds are utilized as per plan, we have outcome owners accountable for realizing value out of pre-approved funds tied to outcomes rather than plans.
Sriram Narayan
#47. The compartment built to 'seat 8 passengers; 4 British Troops, or 6 Indian Troops' now carried only nine.
R.K. Narayan
#49. This world,people around is a mirror where you see your deeds,your life and your behavior reflected back as you behave.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#52. One who flaunts his half baked knowledge is the worker with no wages of light.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#53. YOU NEED NOT BOARD A ROCKET TO EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE.LOOK WITHIN AND FIND THOSE DEEPEST SECRETS OF UNIVERSE HIDING IN THE CORE OF YOUR HEART,SOUL AND THE TRUE YOU.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#54. Certain things acquired an evil complexion if phrased, but remained harmless in the mind.
R.K. Narayan
#56. Everybody has got 5.5 liters of blood. I am just a human being. For me everybody are same.
Narayan
#57. Rama glanced at her whenever a beautiful object caught his eye. Every tint of the sky, every shape of a flower or bud, every elegant form of a creeper reminded him of some aspect or other of Sita's person.
R.K. Narayan
#58. You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.
R.K. Narayan
#59. When one is seized with a passion to understand one's self, one has to leave behind all normal life and habitual modes of thought.
R.K. Narayan
#60. Leadership is all about raising the aspirations of people.
Narayan
#61. What you see is my old shell; inside it's all changed. You can't share my life.
R.K. Narayan
#62. violence cannot be everlasting. Sooner or later it has to go, if not through wisdom, definitely through decrepitude, which comes on with years, whether one wants it or not.
R.K. Narayan
#63. Collaboration across teams tends to be discontinuous and discrete (e.g., via meetings).
Sriram Narayan
#65. Religions were never meant to be followed but thought for. It turned nasty when was turned into human ego, blasted straight out of furnace of hatred for fellow being.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#66. Two and two, four; four and three, something else. Something into something, more; some more into less. Oh, God, numbers did give me a headache.
R.K. Narayan
#67. tools that blur boundaries between specialists are better than those that reinforce them.
Sriram Narayan
#68. It's often said that God made man in His own image, it's also true that man makes God in his own image.
R.K. Narayan
#69. Handoffs are mostly a result of specialization. Organization design cannot reduce these handoffs, but it can make them faster and cheaper by making them occur inside a single team.
Sriram Narayan
#70. In a few months I was a seasoned guide. I had viewed myself as an amateur guide and a professional shopman, but now gradually I began to think of myself as a part-time shop-keeper and a full-time tourist guide.
R.K. Narayan
#71. The sun set beyond thesea, so says the poet - and when a poet mentions a sea, we have to accept it; no harm in letting a poet describe his vision, no need to question his geography.
R.K. Narayan
#72. Words can be borrowed but thoughts can never be stolen. You are a born thinker.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#73. He(Samuel, known as 'the Pea') was as apprehensive, weak and nervous about things as Swaminathan was. The bond between them was laughter. They were able to see together the same absurdities and incongruities in things. The most trivial and unnoticeable thing to others would tickle them to death.
R.K. Narayan
#74. In a world where we are accustomed to rivalries over possession, authority, and borders, and people clashing over the issue, "Ours," or "Mine, not yours," it is rather strange to find two people debating whose the kingdom is not, and asserting: "Yours, not mine.
R.K. Narayan
#76. Staying away from news channels, print, and social media makes one realize, that the world actually is a beautiful place to live.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#77. If we do not accomplish it in time, what has begun with a monkey may not end with a monkey. Next even a swarm of mosquitoes may decide to challenge your authority.
R.K. Narayan
#78. Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words.
R.K. Narayan
#79. She could not bring herself to turn away from the night sky, for the stars and the blackness were the only escape she had when old faded memories returned to haunt her.
Narayan Liu
#80. If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.
R.K. Narayan
#81. Project is a self-contained phrase and may or may not be capable of elaboration.
R.K. Narayan
#82. everyone is acting a part all the time, knowingly or unknowingly.
R.K. Narayan
#83. I was created out of thought so let my food be my thoughts and intellect my daily dose of survival
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#85. Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
R.K. Narayan
#86. If he(Mani) were Swaminathan, he would have closed the whole incident at the beginning by hurling an ink-bottle, if nothing bigger was available, at the teacher.
R.K. Narayan
#87. But you are not my wife. You are a woman who will go to bed with anyone who flatters your antics. That's
R.K. Narayan
#88. It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom.
R.K. Narayan
#90. But there is this peculiarity about heat: it appears to affect only those that think of it.
R.K. Narayan
#91. We are our best guide and a friend. Our problems arise when we start looking for one elsewhere.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#92. Swaminathan had never thought that this story contained a moral. But now he felt that it must have one since the question paper mentioned it.
R.K. Narayan
#93. It's the ego, not your soul which progresses when your passion turns into an obsession.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#94. Those who believe in destiny and those who drift without such beliefs are alike the worst among men; only those who act and perform what is right for their station in life are worthy of praise. Man
R.K. Narayan
#95. There are no more surprises and shocks in life, so that I watch the flame without agitation. For me the greatest reality is this and nothing else... Nothing else will worry or interest me in life hereafter.
R.K. Narayan
#96. IT'S NOT ONLY YOU BUT HE TOO IS LOOKING FOR YOU.OPEN YOUR EYES TO LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#97. An organizational norm that says, "We value practice over theory but we value theory-informed practice over ad-hoc practice" helps to restore some respect for theory. We
Sriram Narayan
#98. How can two living entities possessing intelligence and judgement ever be tied together for a lifetime?
R.K. Narayan
#99. It is a human propensity to refuse any change. After all, who desires to move out of their cosy caves and battle in this ever-developing world.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#100. Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.
R.K. Narayan
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