Jairam Ramesh Quotes

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friend

• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Change
  • Sun

• I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Period

• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Women
  • City
  • Hair

• 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Being
  • Outsiders
  • Vine

• My daughter passed away in 2003.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Daughter
  • Away
  • Passed

• A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Ambition
  • Achievement

• I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Water
  • Find
  • Concrete

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Now
  • Short

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Education
  • Value
  • California

• The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Like

• I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.

  

  Finn Jones
  • War
  • Game
  • Fire

• The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Children
  • Ruins
  • Ease

• Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records was cool, but when people wanted to party, they got around a piano. My mother played piano, my sister played. I've been around a lot of piano all my life.

  

  Dr. John
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Catholic

• The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Military

• I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Women
  • American

• There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

  

  Jairam Ramesh
  • Time
  • Good
  • Courage