Vijaya Lakshmi Quotes

#1. My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

John Fowles

#2. The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps ...

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#3. The more we sweat, the less we bleed.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#4. He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Jeff Goodell

#6. Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#7. One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#8. The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font.

Zach Galifianakis

#9. Everything that smells sweet, doesn't taste sweet!!

Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

#10. Dont just rest in ur nest, spread your wings and find your zest!!

Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

#11. I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.

Sharyn McCrumb

#12. To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

Thomas Willis

#13. Ethical use of anything sets everything right, and also makes space for more.

Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

#14. Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations ...

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#15. To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#16. What Matters!! Is Grey Matter!

Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

#17. The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.

Michael Oxley

#18. You've been checking me out, haven't you? In between your flaming insults? I feel like man candy.

J. Lynn

#19. Freedom is not for the timid.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#20. Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#21. One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#22. My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."
"Then it may be rescued and healed," said Dorothea.

George Eliot

#23. The love withheld is always the love we long for most.

Susanna Tamaro

#24. Sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit