Swamy Quotes

#1. Love transcends all barriers. Age, Gender, Caste et al are the diktats of society to thwart love, promote strait jacketed family life . . ."

"If love could transcend all barriers why not that of gender as well?

Jayant Swamy

#2. I think there is a misunderstanding about Indians' traditional views. India did send army into Goa, India did send an army into and fought a war in Kashmir in 1948, India did get Hyderabad by force ... I think the narrow projection on the international ... arena distorted India's image.

Subramanian Swamy

#3. But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

Margaret Junkin Preston

#4. Happenstance intersecting with received wisdom produces something entirely new and significant

William Boyd

#5. The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the feeling of the people. The world may have been misled by Jawaharlal Nehru's own international projection, which in fact had no reality on the ground.

Subramanian Swamy

#6. We [India in 70s] certainly were capable of producing eight to ten bombs, at a cost of about $250,000 each; and we had Boeing 707s to deliver them if we needed it, so I think we had a crude capability already at that time.

Subramanian Swamy

#7. Time they say is the best healer. Sad, but not true. With time, pain becomes you and you become pain. One forgets what life was without the pain.

Jayant Swamy

#8. When we are young, we have stars in our eyes. We have dreams. We romanticize the unattainable. Once the dream is attained, everything seems dreary. Once we are There, we realize there is no There. There is now Here. Disillusionment follows. Life is drudgery. Yet it is important to dream.

Jayant Swamy

#9. I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.

Richard Rodriguez

#10. The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

Viktor E. Frankl

#11. I walked into this industry blond with red lips, and I will leave this industry blond with red lips. Mark my words.

Rita Ora

#12. I certainly think the antagonism came out of a mistaken notion amongst the Indian people that the Chinese aggressed on us, and they thought, Indian people

Subramanian Swamy

#13. Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. Is she dead?" called Zenda.
Sort of," I shouted, "And the pizza's completely fucked too.

Michael Marshall Smith

#15. I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.

Josef Koudelka

#16. India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on ... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.

Subramanian Swamy

#17. I think Pakistan was not a factor in terms of decision India to obtain nuclear weapon. Because there was no talk of Pakistan having any capability. The main factor was China. And the international prestige that China was getting as a consequence of having its own nuclear weapons.

Subramanian Swamy

#18. Good intentions. A simple thing. If only one knows what a tomorrow has in store for them.

Jayant Swamy

#19. Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

Thomas Hood

#20. Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

Nichiren

#21. I've always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes

Jennifer Niven