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

• Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Change
  • Child
  • Raised

• Various irregular forces are operating on their own. It's easy for them not to follow the higher-ups.

  

  Eduardo Ermita
  • Follow
  • Forces
  • Operating

• The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.

  

  Mark Kirk
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Important
  • Action

• The Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unités, or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

  

  John Dryden
  • Time
  • Action
  • Famous

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

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Action