Rajiv Gandhi Quotes

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

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• The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Travel
  • Economy
  • Tourism

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• Life does not owe me a shred.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Life
  • Me
  • Owe

• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Great
  • True
  • Crazy

• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Why
  • You

• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • Great
  • Everyday

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • You
  • Listening

• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Real
  • Question

• We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Serious
  • Very
  • Weapons

• 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Actor
  • Give
  • Romance

• To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Good
  • Action

• I first got a sense of that idea of nodality - but I didn't use the word back then - with 'The Missing of the Somme': that sense of a particular place in a landscape or on a map having some kind of tremendous power to draw us to itself... that made me conscious, and since then, really, it has been an abiding concern of mine.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Power
  • Missing

• The sun pressed down on his eyelids, a hot illumination that would soon make him feel drowsy. This must be the way blind people absorbed light into their heads: raising their faces to the sun, to Ra, god of the blind. Everyone needed real light, not just the artificial, thought-up light of the imagination.

  

  Achmat Dangor
  • People
  • Light
  • Imagination

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

  

  Confucius
  • Knowing
  • Caring
  • Strive

• For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought