S N Bose Quotes & Sayings

No, this is my revenge. I am giving you just what you want, I'm releasing you. And yet I'm really not. I'll inflict torments on you, subtle torments, day after day, year after year- that's why you're necessary to me. — Buddhadeva Bose

The sins of men aren't confined to them. They travel like ripples over water, over many generations till someone gets revenge or finds forgiveness. You and I, we are all paying for our father's sins, aren't we? — Anirban Bose

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14. — Amar Bose

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling. — Amar Bose

Sometimes your own tongue can make you deaf and dumb. — Anirban Bose

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love. — Buddhadeva Bose

I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan — Tuhin A. Sinha

No time for happiness, no time for sorrow. Work is the best of physicians. — Buddhadeva Bose

Memory fans out from imagination, and vice versa, and why not. Memory isn't a well but an offshoot. It goes secretly. Comes apart. Deceives. It's guilty of repurposing the meaning of deep meaning and poking fun at what you've emotionalized. And — Durga Chew-Bose

Then again, maybe that's why I'm drawn to wonder: it pays no attention to priorities. Before — Durga Chew-Bose

So I have an Indian heart if I do something illegal?'
No, you have an Indian heart if you understand the limitations of our resources and are willing to step out of the man-made boundaries of the law to help someone. — Anirban Bose

A nook person finds the dog at the party; drinks wine from a mug; sits on the floor and braids carpet tassels only to become self-conscious and unbraid them. — Durga Chew-Bose

give me blood i will give you freedom — Subhas Chandra Bose

Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether it is politicians or actors or social activists, they know for sure whom to trust or not. — Rahul Bose

There's strength in observing one's miniaturization. That you are insignificant and prone to, and God knows, dumb about a lot. Because doesn't smallness prime us to eventually take up space? For instance, the momentum gained from reading a great book. After after, sitting, sleeping, living in its consequence. A book that makes you feel, finally, latched on. — Durga Chew-Bose

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose. — Shukla Bose

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose

Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in generous measure. Now I demand more of you. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits. — Subhas Chandra Bose

We live in a global village, Neel, where billions of voices babble simultaneously, and in this village a new hierarchy is being established, a new caste-system is being created. Only this time, it is money that sets the tone. Whoever has the most money buys the biggest loudspeaker and is the neo-Brahmin of this new world order. If the ninety-year-old neo-Brahmin on the other side of the earth is terrified of antibiotic resistant flesh-eating bacteria, we must think twice before offering treatment to a twenty-four-year old here. These are the new rules of our global village. — Anirban Bose

Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you. — Durga Chew-Bose

80% of my waking hours go in promoting my book. In the remaining 20%, I am promoting my book. — Bilol Bose

The genius of the word is that it's more of an expression than a word. Nook — Durga Chew-Bose

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research. — Amar Bose

We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood. — Subhas Chandra Bose

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines. — Amar Bose

Women who are in no rush to respond to a world that's only conceived them as its consequence. — Durga Chew-Bose

Nook people are those of us who need solitude, but also the sound of someone puttering in the next room. — Durga Chew-Bose

No matter how lackluster its surroundings, within seconds, all was new again for a goldfish because it had figured out how to repair its sense of spectacle. There — Durga Chew-Bose

India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy's ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army to Delhi. The road to Delhi is the road to Freedom. Chalo Delhi (March to Delhi). — Subhas Chandra Bose

Even when I was nothing, I was arriving. This — Durga Chew-Bose