Pranab Mukherjee Quotes

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Pranab Mukherjee

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• In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Fighting
  • Place
  • Debate

• The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Way
  • Flowers
  • Bee

• My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Passion
  • Politics

• If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Come
  • Figure
  • Publicity

• There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• 'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'

  

  Ian Fleming

• Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Nature
  • Plant

• ...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Great
  • War

• No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Time
  • Long
  • May

• I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Life
  • Work

• Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Life

• I always feel like there are a lot of different types of favourites. There are some that I look to for interesting things, some that I look to for acting things, others that I watch again and again.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Different
  • Interesting

• Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • Simple

• There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

  

  Mary MacLane

• Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

  

  David Hume
  • People
  • Wise

• To do a train wreck and make it look real on screen is tremendously skilful.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Real

• I was born gay, just as I was born black.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Black
  • Gay

• Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  

  Burleigh Grimes
  • Kids
  • Guy
  • Kind

• Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Confidence
  • Things
  • Sexiest

• In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Different

• I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Family
  • Values
  • Raised

• He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Guilt
  • Virtues
  • Crimes

• Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee