India Quotes - Page 28

"Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.

Above all, India is the land of religion.

Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

Well Buddhism, 'shmoodism', I didn't go to India looking for Buddhism. I was looking for truth, or God, or a better way of life or happiness, fulfillment, meaning, purpose. And a way to become peace in the world and not just fight for peace, as we had in the 60's.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.

The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other, plays the East India against the Crown, all of those sort of overwhelming concepts that ran the world at the time.

India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

I am totally amazed at the spread of interest in meditation. When I first came back from studying in India in 1974, I would be asked in social situations what I did. When I replied, "I teach meditation" they would frequently look at me as though to say "That is weird," and sort of sidle away.

I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed.

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

Militarily, the great movements of resistance against colonial powers in the 18th and 19th century were almost all from Sufis: Imam Shamil in Caucasia, Amir Abd al Qadir in Algeria, The Barelvi family in the modern province of India, today which is Pakistan, and you can go down the line.

All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.

My books serve as archives of thoughts and emotions, like a tonal history that captures how I felt at a certain time of my life. It's not very informational. You're not going to get comprehensive knowledge about the Han dynasty of China or about India's Emergency. But you might learn how one person felt about the Los Angeles Olympics.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.