Quotes About Bengali Culture

#1. If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

John Ruskin

#2. I don't care about losses anymore.

Marat Safin

#3. It was bad enough to see friendship and love in terms of politics. But seeing it in terms of business was even worse.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#4. Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Alfred De Musset

#5. I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.

Sammy Cahn

#6. Sometimes the most important battles are the ones we choose to avoid.

Matthew C. Plourde

#7. Come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unborn

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#8. I was born free.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#9. I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.

Taslima Nasrin

#10. Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.

Zoroaster

#11. People think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

Woody Allen

#12. Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

Joseph Pilates

#13. I interviewed a lot of people in India, and I asked my mother to send me a lot of Bengali books on the tradition of dream interpretation. It's a real way for me to remember how people think about things in my culture.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#14. The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

William James

#15. What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.

Robert Dallek