763 quotes found
“And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs.”
“We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.”
“He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell you that. And we entrust our glourious parliamentary democracy”
“When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the prob...”
“Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables w...”
“In our human imagination, we so often perceive our Heroes to be something larger than life. We exalt them in ways that do them a disservice....we convince ourselves that they are or were something ...”
“He knew that if Michelle entered into the walls of the Vatican, shed corrupt every single clergyman within, causing them to forsake their vows in trade for a few moments with her. With one glance m...”
“If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway”
“Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)”
“The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.”
“Sometimes those who challenge you most.. Teach you best.”
“Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.”
“Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.”
“Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.”
“Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.”
“With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.”
“Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.”
“I'd finally reached the end of myself, all my self-reliance and denial and pride unraveling into nothingness, leaving only a blank Alison-shaped space behind. It was finished. I was done.But just a...”
“The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.”
“Simplify? Let me try. In school days, we are taught that if there are four animals in a room and you add two more, the total will be six. That is logic. But behind this logic, there are underlying ...”
