Twinkle Khanna Quotes

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

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• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Experience
  • Happy

• People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Thought
  • Fast

• I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • English
  • Intelligence

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Up
  • Other

• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffering

• While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • People
  • Law
  • Rules

• My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Opportunity

• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Up
  • Why
  • Clear

• The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Mind
  • Compelling

• If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • People
  • Man
  • Past

• When you are just starting out with an online business, there's a good chance that you'll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Game
  • Know

• Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Friendship

• Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter - you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Bad
  • True

• It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Turns
  • Esteem

• Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • American
  • Past
  • Lost

• I spent a summer in Texas when I was eight, in Fredericksburg, which is, like, real Texas. It's, like, cowboys and stuff. That was my first time in the States, and I was eight years old. It was also the first time I tasted Dr. Pepper, which blew my mind.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Real

• Fear-filled words will defeat you, but faith-filled words will put you over!

  

  Charles Capps

• It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • People
  • Reading