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
  • Boy
  • Thought

• 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

• In many ways, our homes act as one big drain that, through our daily relationship with water, carries many toxic substances into our waterways and the environment.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Relationship
  • Water
  • Environment

• It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

  

  Conrad Hall
  • Black
  • Light
  • Stop

• Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Up
  • Character
  • Age

• Pink is like the one color I say I hate, and yet somehow I end up wearing it. Like, Michael Kors sent me a pink dress, and I'm like: 'So beautiful!' And I'm wearing it telling him 'I hate pink, why am I wearing this? It's really nice though.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • Up
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru