Stills Quotes by Indira Gandhi

11 Stills quotes by Indira Gandhi

When the mind seeks a breath between action, Indira Gandhi’s eleven lines on stillness can serve as a quick reset. Though modest in number, they pack the weight of a leader’s calm amid turbulence.

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Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same…

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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

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Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed…

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The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be…

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You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's…

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You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of…

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India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah…

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I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he…

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I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't…

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One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls,…

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I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't…

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