Vijaya Lakshmi Quotes & Sayings

Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self. — Trent Lott

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

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

No small part in the new awareness of the horrors of genocide was a willingness of Holocaust survivors to tell their stories. Chalk and Jonassohn note that these memoirs are historically unusual.146 Survivors of earlier genocides had treated them as humiliating defeats and felt that talking about them would only rub in history's harsh verdict. With the new humanitarian sensibilities, genocides became crimes against humanity, and survivors were witnesses for the prosecution. — Steven Pinker

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

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

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

At this point there were good days, good weeks, when we pretended that it was acceptable that Jack had lived at all, that his life had been, in its truncated way, complete. This wasn't one of those days. — Dave Eggers

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe. — Rene Descartes

Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties. — Gautam Adani

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

Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life. — Will Carleton

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do. — Lance Morrow

Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze. — Thomas Hardy

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

Death was everywhere, he was legion, and you couldn't escape his attention, but in some places he manifested in greater numbers than in others. — Dean Koontz

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

Autumn is really the best of the seasons — C.S. Lewis

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

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

In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later. — Siri Hustvedt

Freedom is not for the timid. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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