Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • Education
  • Problem

• No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Shine

• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Great
  • Bad
  • History

• We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Tradition

• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Clothes
  • Carry

• All of my businesses are profitable.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Businesses
  • Profitable

• Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Fear
  • Thought
  • Boy

• Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Up
  • Like
  • Kid

• It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Me
  • Never
  • Judge

• 'I don't see much sense in that,' said Rabbit.'No,' said Pooh humbly, 'there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• The international monetary system is the glue that binds national economies together.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Together

• If Benton had had an administration building with pillars it could have carved over the pillars: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you guilty.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Truth
  • Guilty

• The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.

  

  Jack Vance

• Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • World
  • Earth

• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Confidence

• TV and film for me are not as exciting as the live stand-up show and getting the immediate reaction of the crowd. TV is a lot of hurry up and wait for your shot and less immediate reaction from people.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I wanted young women to know that I was very lucky that I worked for people who literally let me be me. If I had ever been anyone other than me, I would have come off as a fake, a phony, a fraud, and never would have gotten where I ultimately ended up. You can be yourself and be in politics, and they should know that. That was kind of why I wanted to do it - because I didn't see any freaks in politics like me.

  

  Alyssa Mastromonaco
  • Politics
  • Fake
  • Be Yourself

• My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Dream
  • Collaboration

• What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Charity
  • Forgive
  • Faithfulness

• If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Future
  • Sinfulness
  • Christian beliefs

• Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru