India Quotes - Page 40

• I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Land, Way, Beard

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• India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

  Annie Besant

  Country, Home

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• My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

  Annie Besant

  Home, Giving, Purpose

  "Indian critiques of Gandhi". Book by Harold G. Coward, 2003.

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• The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

  Annie Besant

  England, Village, Destruction

  "Essays on Indian Freedom Movement". Book by Raj Kumar, 2003.

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• Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

  Annie Besant

  Europe, Needs, Sides

  Annie Besant (1915). “How India Wrought for Freedom: The Story of the National Congress Told from Official Records”

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• A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

  Annie Besant

  Religious, Growth, Matter

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most widely known. It is Hindi. A man who knows Hindi can travel over India and find everywhere Hindi-speaking people.

  Annie Besant

  Men, People, Different

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

  Annie Besant

  Past, Boots, Tribes

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• Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Agriculture, Population

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• I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

  Bill Bryson

  Iraq, Trying, Want

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• I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.

  David Cameron

  Japan, Europe, Want

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• We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Islamic, Democracy

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• We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

  Georgina Chapman

  Daughter, Mother, Home

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• When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Dream, Expectations, Political

  "The Impact of Marcus Garvey" by John Henrik Clarke, www.raceandhistory.com.

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• What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, “I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.”

  Gail Collins

  Light, People, Wife

  "Journalist Gail Collins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 4, 2012.

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• What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Guy, Australian, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

  Umberto Eco

  America, Australia, Captains

  "Signs of the times". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2002.

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• I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

  Jane Fonda

  Hippie, Mia, Peace Corps

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

  E. M. Forster

  Asking, Literature, Causes

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 8

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• To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

  David Frum

  Democracy, Balance, Population

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• There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building - so there is a new lifestyle.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Country, Home, Mean

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• As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

  Daniel Goleman

  College, Meditation Practice, Class

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• If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

  Al Gore

  Sky, Oil, Discovery

  "What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?". Interview With John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

  Ariana Grande

  Song, Sweet, Artist

  "Ariana Grande On Collaborating With Nathan Sykes And Recording One Of The Best Album’s This Year". Interview with Dana Mathews, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Numbers, Media, Diaspora

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