India Quotes - Page 25

• The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.

  William Jones

  Latin, Perfect, Greek

  "The Third Anniversary Discourse, on the Hindus" (1786)

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• A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say that just because your broken arm isn't as serious as someone else's gut wound, that doesn't mean your injury isn't excruciating or doesn't require attention. If you want to help the Indian children, or make the world a better place in any other way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself.

  Martha Beck

  Memories, Children, Mean

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.145, Harmony

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• India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.

  Imran Khan

  Cancer, Heart, Mind

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• Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.

  Deepa Mehta

  Children, Widows, Stills

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.

  Deepa Mehta

  Children, Years, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.

  Francesco Clemente

  New York, People, Naked

  "New Again: Francesco Clemente". Interview with Edit deAk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• (They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, East, Asia

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• Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.

  Jean Houston

  Jobs, Opportunity, Years

  "Jean Houston PhD Awakening Human Potential". Interview with David Welch, www.awaken.com. April 3, 2015.

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• Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

  Goldwin Smith

  Real, Civilization, England

  Goldwin Smith (1897). “Essays on Questions of the Day, Political and Social”

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• But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

  Carl Jung

  Track, Infinity, Leading Me

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. I cite the great civilizations of China and India.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Past, Men, Civilization

  "The Genius". Book by Theodore Dreiser, 1915.

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• India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.

  Erin Lokitz

  Heart

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• In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Book, Order, Land

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• The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Character, Civilization

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• In India it is believed that all creatures have a purpose.

  Mel Gibson

  Purpose, Creatures

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• Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Ideas, Revolution, Individual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, People, Waiting

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• I now know what Sachin Tendulkar feels every time he bats in India.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Bats, Tendulkar, Feels

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• The thing about India is that while they will miss Sachin, they have the ability to put out another batsman nearly as good.

  Michael Vaughan

  Missing, Ability

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• I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about their cricket there.

  Allan Border

  Real, Years, Lasts

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• A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, Important, Necks

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• My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.

  Nita Ambani

  Father, Passion, Views

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• For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I will not hurt England or Germany to serve India . . . My patriotism is inclusive and admits of no enmity or ill-will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Patriotic, Ill Will

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• India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.

  C. N. Annadurai

  Government, Needs, Should

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• My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Ambition, Profound, Human Nature

  "Learning is Continuous" by Padma Srinivasan, www.thehindu.com. September 04, 2001.

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