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

• '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

• The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

  

  David Eagleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Reality

• I like to lift and do cardio to stay in shape, so I can walk the dog on somebody, and I like to be strong, but running 10 miles or a decathlon? That don't support my interests.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Strong
  • Support
  • Running

• I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

  

  Ellen Pompeo
  • Life
  • Teacher

• I watched her from the doorway. I wondered how it was that she came to be the owner of that rage. I wanted it for myself but there was nothing in me.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Rage
  • Wondered
  • Doorway

• As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Good
  • Baseball
  • Players

• I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Thinking
  • Words

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

  

  Pranab Mukherjee