Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes

India is not a piece of land, but a living entity.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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• Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Money
  • Actor
  • Nobody

• As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Go
  • Industrial

• A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Running
  • Forward
  • Fast

• My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Life
  • Family
  • Love

• I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Professional

• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Change
  • Environment

• There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Reason
  • Show
  • Technique

• Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Never
  • Should
  • Sanctioned

• I learned about poise and dignity, and I learned about what it means to be an African-American in television and what that requires in terms of what kind of position you take for yourself and how you define your own reality in a world that is still finding its footing, to say the least.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • American
  • Reality

• I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Myself
  • Mentor
  • Improve

• We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Baby
  • Victorian

• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Absurd

• Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Platform

• I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Real
  • Season

• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • True

• I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on tape can still be automatically scanned for durability and it certainly meets the cost-effectiveness requirements.

  

  George Arthur Crump
  • Term
  • Compare
  • Effectiveness

• We've killed more Muslims than they've killed us by an awful lot, and we've invaded more Islamic nations. But we're exempted from these things?

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Islamic

• I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Purpose
  • Service
  • I Pray

• When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was working at an ice-cream stand in my thirties. I learned that when you don't have anything to give, that's when you really give, and then you get back so much more.

  

  Jonathan Evison
  • Marriage

• It was my pork chop. But that's ok. I ate his dog food.

  

  Bam Bam Bigelow
  • Food
  • Dog
  • Wrestling

• India is not a piece of land, but a living entity.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee