Pankaj Mishra Quotes

Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

Pankaj Mishra

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IndiaDesireMoreCynicalBritish

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Jim Bishop

FatherMotherImpossibleYouBorn

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Melinda Gates

EducationBusinessScienceSchool

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.

Robert Littell

BookSaidRightLightningMarkYour

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Maura Tierney

PeopleThinkFeelYouBeenHow

I'll say this: I think from a directing standpoint, 'Loving' is my most accomplished film. Strictly from a technical, directing point of view.

Jeff Nichols

ThinkViewPoint Of ViewLovingSay

If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don't allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that's 35% of all the world's oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world.

Steve Hanke

WorldYouLoseDownOilSell

I'm obsessed with my children.

Travis Barker

ChildrenObsessed

The hardest thing in life to do is to change.

Mickey Rourke

LifeChangeHardestThe Hardest Thing

When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.

Michel Patini

I AmIdeasLookFollowGetWhistle

Without gay men, I am nothing.

Janice Dickinson

MenI AmGayNothingWithoutAm

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Jose Rizal

WorldPowerfulEthicalNecessitySet

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Jonathan Edwards

NothingWithoutPassCauseEver

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