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

• I have good memories of Bangalore.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Good
  • Memories

• In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• I really liked the sound of some projects that Jon Brion had worked on. I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect.

  

  Kanye West
  • Kids
  • Respect
  • Crazy

• It tasted terrible, so I mixed it with prune juice and fruits. Nobody thought about it until then. We made the guy a millionaire.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Guy

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

  

  Pranab Mukherjee