A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
-
It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
-
I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
-
Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
-
My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
-
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
-
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
-
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
-
I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
-
Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
-
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
-
I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
-
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
-
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
-
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
-
If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
-
My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
-
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
-
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.
-
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
-
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
-
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
