Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

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• Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Positive

• Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Together
  • Bring
  • Heal

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Saying
  • Computers
  • Nonsense

• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Stupid

• When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Work
  • Understand

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health
  • Care
  • Decisions

• I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Small
  • Space

• To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • More
  • Workers

• We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Love
  • Think
  • Difficult

• The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Freedom
  • Explore
  • Tradition

• I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Work
  • Kids

• O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book
  • Day
  • Either

• Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Love
  • Earth
  • For Her

• When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Present
  • Star

• People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • People
  • True

• We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Feelings
  • Forced
  • Prey

• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Woman
  • Prayer

• Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Action
  • Religion

• Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Action