Narmada Quotes & Sayings

Jungle post arrives. Two biscuits for me. A poem and a pressed flower from Comrade Narmada. A lovely letter from Maase. (Who is she? Will I ever know?) Comrade — Arundhati Roy

The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively Indian war. Its a war for the rivers and the mountains and the forests of the world. All sorts of warriors from all over the world, anyone who wishes to enlist, will be honored and welcomed. Every kind of warrior will be needed. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, judges, journalists, students, sportsmen, painters, actors, singers, lovers ... The borders are open, folks! Come on in. — Arundhati Roy

When one is well-read, one has a lot of illusion to overcome. — Marty Rubin

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either. — Andrej Pejic

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal. — Sri Aurobindo

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship. — Mahatma Gandhi

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ. — R.C. Sproul

Borrowing a line from Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Watts dubbed Ritter the Junkyard Dog - and, ever the literalist, gave him a dog collar and junk cart. — David Shoemaker

There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman's lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray. — Henry Fielding

Men in India hold hands walking down the street," Ben said, his voice right up against my ear.
"Really?"
"Yeah. It's just part of their culture. They don't, you know, do things sexually. They just hold hands. Here, that would be, like, weird."
"Yeah. We Americans are so uptight," I said. — Bill Konigsberg