Quotes About Nayantara Sahgal

#1. Choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who mistrust it.

Nayantara Sahgal

#2. Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. [Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.

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#4. A dream is a wish your heart makes.

Charles Perrault

#5. Civilization itself is housed in the human being.

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#6. In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept.

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#7. Love enmeshes you in your partner's unique set of karmic complications, so make sure you're very interested in his or her problems. Love is a laboratory where you can uncover secrets about yourself that have previously been hidden, so be ravenously curious.

Rob Brezsny

#8. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

Tony Robbins

#9. II worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Vita Sackville-West

#10. Passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette.

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#11. Gazing out over the city, I imagine all the people each twinkling light represents; our audience, a sea of eyes staring at us, examining our every move.

Katie Delahanty

#12. Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.

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#13. In the end countries, like people, are alone, and the real things that must be done have to be done without help.

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#14. What was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?

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