Vijaya Quotes & Sayings

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

There was a crackle. Kobe's voice came through the cans. "What would you guys do," he said, apropos of nothing, "if Jules turned into a lizard?"

Another crackle. "Hey!" Jules said.

"It wouldn't happen," said Jacob, and I saw him shrug in the half-light.

"But what if?"

I pressed the talk button on my cans. "There's an old fish tank in our garage," I said. "I'd put Jules in it, and then get a heat rock from the pet shop."

I heard Sam's low chuckle. "Make sure you wash your hands first."

"Why?"

"So you don't get any lizardy diseases."

"I don't have any lizardy diseases!" Jules's voice was getting higher.

"Not yet, but wait until you're a lizard."

"What's a heat rock?" asked Jacob.

"It's a rock," I told him, "that you heat up. Lizards like them. Anyway, once I'd done that, I'd take you to see my cousin Adam."

"IS HE A WIZARD? — Lili Wilkinson

If values are woven into the very concept of education, where is the need for separate value education? — Vijaya Bharathy

Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you,scoffed Opal. — Eoin Colfer

One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Everything that smells sweet, doesn't taste sweet!! — Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

Vijaya prefers to eat alone. Rob ushered her into the room and held a chair for her, then sat across from her. "Many Indians regard eating as something that should be done in private. Considering the table manners of some of our best people, one can see their point."
Patricia Frances Rowell — Patricia Frances Rowell

Dont just rest in ur nest, spread your wings and find your zest!! — Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. — Aldous Huxley

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball. — Paul Zindel

When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became an organization in which nations would at least keep talking instead of shooting. Soon it was discovered ... that words were as deadly as any weapon, and when these words had a number of interpretations they could and did lead to conflict. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

What Matters!! Is Grey Matter! — Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations ... — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps ... — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Ethical use of anything sets everything right, and also makes space for more. — Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

Freedom is not for the timid. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. — Honore De Balzac

The more we sweat, the less we bleed. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated. — Steven J. Lawson

One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

But the Negro's experience of the white world cannot possibly create in him any respect for the standards by which the white world claims to live. — James Baldwin