India Quotes - Page 6

• IT+IT=IT; Indian talent + Information technology = India Tomorrow

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Technology, Information

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2013

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• Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

  Francois Gautier

  Country, Daughter, Mother

  "'There Is an Unconscious Militant Dislike of the Christian World Towards Hindu India'". Interview with Rajeev Srinivasan, www.rediff.com. February 12, 1999.

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• Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.

  Edward Bach

  Art, Healing, Years

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Today, Ancient, Stage

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• All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

  Mark Twain

  Successful, Reflection, America

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.

  Mary Oliver

  Taken, America, Feelings

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

  Danny Boyle

  Extraordinary Things, Extraordinary

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• In the west we think of yoga as an exercise programme, when actually where it's from in India it's a whole philosophy. The Asanas and the exercise programme are one tiny aspect of it, and so it really, really fascinates me.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Philosophy, Yoga, Exercise

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

  H. G. Wells

  Philosophy, Home, Space

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• India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Philosophy, Mark, Mankind

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• India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Country, Special, Momentum

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• India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Heart, Pride, Generosity

  "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

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• Dance India Dance is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Air, Missing, Madness

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• This is perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Perfect

  "Jeremy Clarkson in row over Top Gear India special" by Mark Sweney, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Beautiful, Gun, Boys

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.163, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There is no need to increase the taxes. India can run without troubling the citizens.

  Narendra Modi

  Running, Needs, Citizens

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• Electoral reforms are necessary if India has to be rid of black money.

  Narendra Modi

  Black, Reform, Ifs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year

  Karan Johar

  Years, Students, Nano

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• In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Real, Inattention, Spots

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• Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

  Mira Nair

  Love, Hard Work, Interesting

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• For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.

  Paul Achleitner

  America, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Homeopathy did not merely seek to cure a disease but treated a disease as a sign of disorder of the whole human organism. This was also recognized in the Upanishad which spoke of human organs as combination of body mind and spirit. Homoeopathy would pay an important part in the Public Health of the country along with other systems. Medical facilities in India are so scanty that Homoeopathy can confidently visualize a vast field of expansion.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Country, Mind, Important

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• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Children, Independent, Intelligent

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• India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swedes.

  Peter L. Berger

  Country, Religious, America

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• The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

  Salman Khurshid

  Waiting, Friendly, World

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