Sahgal Quotes

#1. To the ocean. That sounds right. Where the waves roll in slowly and there's always a roar and you can't fall anywhere. You're already there.

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. Reality hasn't really sunk in yet, I knew that. I didn't want to know what life was going to feel like when it finally did.

Keary Taylor

#3. Solitude is the furnace in which transformation takes place.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#4. To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#5. 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?

Nayantara Sahgal

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

Nayantara Sahgal

#7. 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.

Nayantara Sahgal

#8. Beautiful blessings sometimes come wrapped in ugly providences.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Nayantara Sahgal

#10. Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

Simon Bolivar

#11. As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Robin Williams

#12. Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn't make sense, that's why

Madonna Ciccone

#13. It was true that Odette played vilely, but often the most memorable impression of a piece of music is one that has arisen out of a jumble of wrong notes struck by unskilful fingers upon a tuneless piano.

Marcel Proust

#14. In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Anna Godbersen

#15. Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes?

A. J. Jacobs

#16. 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.

Nayantara Sahgal

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

Nayantara Sahgal

#18. At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell

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

Nayantara Sahgal

#20. 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