J P Narayan Quotes & Sayings

By the twelfth day of his fast, Raju himself has become a tourist attraction. Before an enormous crowd and an American television crew, the starving man is helped down to the drought-stricken river to pray: — R.K. Narayan

The next three days I was very busy. My table was placed in the front room of the new house. All my papers and books were arranged neatly. My clothes hung on a peg. The rest of the house was swept and cleaned. — R.K. Narayan

It was Monday morning. Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes. he considered Monday specially unpleasant in the calendar. After the delicious freedom of Saturday and Sunday, it was difficult to get into the Monday mood of work and discipline. He shuddered at the very thought of school: the dismal yellow building; the fire-eyed Vedanayagam, his class teacher, and headmaster with his thin long cane ... — R.K. Narayan

Neither right nor wrong. It is all manipulation of thoughts. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh... — Narayan Liu

Principal sahib, all festivals I celebrate, in every name of God I exhilarate, be it Allah, Christ or Mahadev. And all this naturally comes to me because the Hindu that at heart I be. That's why I wish to remain a Hindu, you see." Narayan Sambhan paused and then added quietly, "But I am speaking principal sahib only for myself entirely." The — Sanjay Kumar Singh

Narayan explained how they had spent the morning, and Dukhi laughed to hear it. the entire episode made Radha furious. "Why must you torment the boy? There is no need to make my Om do such dirty work." ... "How will he appreciate what he has if he does not learn what his forefathers did? Once a week he will come with me! Whether he likes it or not! — Rohinton Mistry

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage ... What about our own roots? ... I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices. — R.K. Narayan

It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom. — R.K. Narayan

I'll be in # Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location hunting. I want to lock the locations before Christmas as everyone goes into vacation mode after that, — Pooja Bhatt

The RSS's Awadh Prant Sanghchalak Prabhu Narayan Srivastava on Friday said Christians and Muslims were not to blame for the conversion of Hindus. — Anonymous

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness. — R.K. Narayan

When i see ahead,its dark, when i see behind, its dark. It's only my present which is bright, thus darkening everything beyond and behind. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

Generate an idea which you can follow, not what people would interpret. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

The compartment built to 'seat 8 passengers; 4 British Troops, or 6 Indian Troops' now carried only nine. — R.K. Narayan

Every creature is born with a potential store of violence. — R.K. Narayan

Every minute becomes a yesterday and is lost forever. — R.K. Narayan

He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married because their sexual appetite had to be satisfied and there must be somebody to manage the house. There was nothing deeper than that in any man and woman relationship. — R.K. Narayan

You are
But why? — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

He created for us to destroy, we created for him to destroy,in the end it was nature which suffered — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

Collaboration across teams tends to be discontinuous and discrete (e.g., via meetings). — Sriram Narayan

The gods grow jealous of too much contentment anywhere, and they show their displeasure all of a sudden. — R.K. Narayan

Handoffs are mostly a result of specialization. Organization design cannot reduce these handoffs, but it can make them faster and cheaper by making them occur inside a single team. — Sriram Narayan

everyone is acting a part all the time, knowingly or unknowingly. — R.K. Narayan

Totalizing and dangerous views of "American culture" and "nationhood" can be found in current attempts to portray "Christian values" or particular constructions of "family values" as constitutive of "American culture" and "the American way of life." Views of "American culture" that picture American society as comprised of "free individuals," and of American institutions as already fair and egalitarian, obscure the ways in which various forms of institutional discrimination impede the entry and flourishing of members of marginalized groups. — Uma Narayan

Every page turned
should be the page read — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

This world,people around is a mirror where you see your deeds,your life and your behavior reflected back as you behave. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

4816OPEN YOUR HEART AND SOUL TO CONSTANT SHOWERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIGHT BY DIVING DEEP INSIDE THE CORE OF YOUR HEART.HE IS TALKING SO LISTEN WITH OPEN HEART. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

If we do not accomplish it in time, what has begun with a monkey may not end with a monkey. Next even a swarm of mosquitoes may decide to challenge your authority. — R.K. Narayan

Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more. — R.K. Narayan