Indian Quotes - Page 6

• One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Angel, Men, Voice

  Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”

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• The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Real, Character, Appreciate

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.340, U of Nebraska Press

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• When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Christian, Spiritual, Country

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing

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• Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

  Khushwant Singh

  People, Slave, Educated

  Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.52, Penguin Books India

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• It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Perfect, Justice

  Subhas Chandra Bose (1946). “Important speeches and writings of Subhas Bose: being a collection of most significant speeches and writings of Subhas Bose”

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• Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

  Mourning Dove

  Native American, Marijuana, Purpose

  Mourning Dove (1994). “Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography”, p.69, U of Nebraska Press

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• Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Eye, Actors, Know How

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• The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

  Joseph Addison

  Food, Cooking, Tea

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.372

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• On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

  Zebulon Pike

  Flags, Flag Day, Occasions

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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• Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don't believe in that either.

  Deepika Padukone

  Zero, Believe, Cutting

  "Padukone: 'Size zero doesn't suit Indians'" by Will Astbury, www.digitalspy.com. March 8, 2010.

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• A 'very good friend' is a dangerous category with Indian girls. From here you can either make fast progress or if you play it wrong, you can go down to the lowest category invented by the Indian women ever - rakhi brother. Rakhi brother really means 'you can talk to me, but don't even freaking think about anything else you bore'.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Girl, Brother, Mean

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• One of the weaknesses of Indian industry is that in many areas.. like consumer goods.. it is very fragmented. Individually, the companies might not be able to survive. What is needed is a consortium of like companies in one industry, presenting a strong front to the multinationals. The Swiss watch industry did this.

  Ratan Tata

  Strength, Strong, Survival

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• In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Views, Untapped Potential, Railway

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• The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Perfection, Looks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all

  Lala Lajpat Rai

  Adults, Education For All, Letters

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• If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

  Vijay Mallya

  Thinking, India, Want

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• Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

  Tony Hillerman

  Blood, Culture

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• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  Vijay Mallya

  Opportunity, Rooted

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• Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

  Dev Patel

  Heritage, My Family, Yeah

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Country, Unique, People

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• So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

  Vikram Seth

  Language, Should, Novel

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• I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives, it's part of our culture we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

  Karan Johar

  Song, Religious, Sleep

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. March 29, 2007.

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• As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Men, White Man, Years

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• I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Country, Book, Writing

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• Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

  Brad Pitt

  Cinema, Pace, Growing

  "Brad Pitt: 'I Would Love to Work in A Bollywood Film'" by Nyay Bhushan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2012.

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