Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Poverty

• I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Family
  • Think
  • Culture

• From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Father
  • Culture
  • Education

• One child is never enough for a monarch.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Child
  • Enough

• The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Girl
  • Eyes
  • Look

• He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Sympathy
  • Him
  • Maternal

• It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Good
  • Live
  • Success

• So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Me
  • Party

• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Words
  • Tears
  • Forgiveness

• Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Up
  • Ever
  • Attached

• The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Community
  • Always

• I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Write
  • Something
  • Events

• I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Think
  • Know
  • Singing

• I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Father
  • Smart

• Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Good
  • Character
  • Lost

• Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Better
  • Perfection

• When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Different
  • House

• Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Great
  • Hate

• She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter ъ, …

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • She

• It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Age
  • Interesting

• People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Work
  • Week

• I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Fear

• It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru