"I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi."

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Source : "EXCLUSIVE: India's President talks to New Era". Interview with Chrispin Inambao, weekend.newera.com.na. June 16, 2016.

Pranab Mukherjee

#Journey Quotes #Village Quotes #Lamps Quotes

“The look that passes between Jeffrey and Kimber right then feels like it requires a swell of cheesy music in the background. Aw, I think. Baby brother's in love. I also find this kind of gross.”

Source : Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.112, Egmont UK
“They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.”
“Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.”

Source : John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.”

Source : Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Middleton, C. R. A. Foakes (1996). “The Revenger's Tragedy”, p.114, Manchester University Press
“The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.”

Source : "The Movie Callie Khouri Has 'Seen A Million Times'". "All Things Considered" with Celeste Headlee, news.stlpublicradio.org. October 14, 2012.
“You change the world by being yourself.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 15, 2013
“It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.”
“Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.”

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