Neelakantan N Quotes & Sayings

No self-respecting God would allow a good man to be happy for long. God has relevance only in the unhappiness of good people. — Anand Neelakantan

Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and react only with your body, without thinking. This leads to failure in every sphere. Uproot this evil from your system. — Anand Neelakantan

When our schools fail to teach our children what they should know, other schools take their place and teach different lessons, which we may not like. — Anand Neelakantan

room confirmed the view I had of myself. I always felt as if I had been placed in storage in this house. However, regardless of what it was and what it had been, the room had to be kept as immaculate as any other. My grandmother was fully convinced that cleanliness was next to godliness and was fond of chanting it at me whenever she ordered me to polish or wash — V.C. Andrews

Fear is not an emotion, it is a disease. It spreads from the leader to his followers and vice-versa. Nothing has killed more men in war than fear. What should a warrior fear? Death? But death is what everyone achieves ultimately. Is it wounds that you fear? What is more important? A pint of your blood or the nectar of victory? Think. Thinking will clear such doubts. — Anand Neelakantan

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it. — C.S. Lewis

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone. — Yi-Fu Tuan

The real meaning of the sacred texts gave me greater determination to attack evils like caste, animal sacrifices and other rituals being propagated by the priestly class. I was determined to curb meaningless rituals and sacrifices and put an end to the curse of caste. We — Anand Neelakantan

I believe that the people are looking for a leader who has experience, who has courage, who has vision. — Matthew Coon Come

Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all. — Anand Neelakantan

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Love makes you weak. Love has unseen bondages that take you into the abyss of failure at that crucial moment when victory and failure get balanced. Beware of love. — Anand Neelakantan

It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach. — Olivia Palermo

Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man to enslave women. — Anand Neelakantan

As a child, rain meant endless amusement; in youth it meant romance; in middle-age, nothing mattered except the struggle of everyday living; but it was in the last leg of one's life when the rains assumed their sinister avatar. Thimma — Anand Neelakantan

Can you plant a sapling and expect it to grow into a tree overnight? You have to water it, nurture it, give it sunlight, rain, and manure, and then slowly, it will grow. — Anand Neelakantan

Survival is the biggest dharma. The scriptures say, nothing is a sin during danger. It is called apat dharma. Think — Anand Neelakantan

We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else. — Maya Angelou

Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield. — Anand Neelakantan

An evil man without vices was the most dangerous of all. — Anand Neelakantan

Creative problem solving is not necessarily tantamount to cheating. — V. St. Clair

One should honour women and not insult anyone. If there was — Anand Neelakantan

There are people who will offer you many things and demand nothing in return. Fear them the most, for they are the ones who will take the things that are most precious to you and then their demands will come at a time when it is most inconvenient to you. — Anand Neelakantan

Some of the drops of water fell onto my skin and by impulse was to smell the water. It stank. My neighbour whispered in my ear, "It's cow's urine and gobar. They use it for purification." We, the untouchables, were purified with bullshit. — Anand Neelakantan

Fight all you want, but you will never win. You can change a system only by being part of that system, by being part of the change. — Anand Neelakantan

On to the sixth row! No matter how careful you are, the sixth row would definitely kill you. — Randall Munroe

To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself. — Charles Baudelaire

It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion into it — Anand Neelakantan

You dare laugh at the fall of Suyodhana and all the noble men like Bhishma, my father, Karna, and the others who fought for him? Read Jaya to know how Karna rejected the temptation to become Emperor and instead chose to stand by the man who had given him everything when he had nothing. Read how Karna was trapped by own nobility, how impossible promises were extracted from him; know how he was shot while extracting the wheel of his chariot that was stuck in the mud. Know that Arjuna did not keep his word, as any honourable warrior would have done, when he failed to kill Jayadratha before sunset, hiding behind the lame excuse that the sunset had been maya, an illusion created by an avatar. Sleep in your beds peacefully by all means, if your conscience still allows you to do so, you lucky devils. — Anand Neelakantan

If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war on his side?? — Anand Neelakantan

The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them. — Anand Neelakantan

The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that. — Jack Dorsey

We found that we didn't have much problem with him [J.C.], it was his followers we found questionable. — Graham Chapman

What makes you think you can survive as a saint in this world, unless you make it your business to exploit the gullible and greedy? — Anand Neelakantan

People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Is dharma a war fought without ethics and then glorified? — Anand Neelakantan

The world is a jungle and each of us is alone. Each of us is the hunter and every one is the hunted. Kill or be killed. In this jungle, only the smartest will survive. Your brother is smart, you are not. You are a fool, filled with stupid notions of duty. Unless you cure yourself of this disease, you are doomed. — Anand Neelakantan