Pankaj Mishra Quotes
The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.Pankaj Mishra
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah Winfrey -
A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
Malcolm Gladwell -
My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
Laura Dern -
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
Dana Rohrabacher -
I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
Padmasree Warrior -
Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
Karen Bender
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Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.
Karl Liebknecht -
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug -
I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster -
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
Basil Hume -
Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
Zalmay Khalilzad
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck -
If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
Olivia Colman -
I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
Aaron Paul -
You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
Fidel Castro -
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber
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I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.
Christopher Hampton -
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.
Vladimir Lenin -
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik -
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Edward Dahlberg -
The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
Pankaj Mishra