Nepal

🇳🇵Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Literature

1909–1959

"The thing which identifies is called eyes,understands is called brain, listens is called ear and feels is heart. To be devoid of these four things is the signs of being a beast."

🇳🇵Manjushree Thapa

Literature

b. 1968

"The last time there were so many Thapas in government, the Panchayat regime collapsed under their weight."

🇳🇵Suman Pokhrel

Literature

b. 1967

"“Chance of source language influencing the target language and that of the translator intervening onto the style of original writer are major challenges in literary translation."

🇳🇵Balbhadra Kunwar

1789–1823

"It was not customary to receive or answer letters at such unreasonable hours."

🇳🇵Govinda K.C.

Business

b. 1957

"I am not scared of dying and I am not scared of contempt of court punishment. My fight is against Gopal Parajuli, not other judges. If I have erred it was not a deliberate mistake, please forgive me."'"

🇳🇵Paras Khadka

b. 1987

"We had bunch of young players and every individual performed when team needed the most. Even junior players stood up on couple of occasions and that is a good sign for future of Nepali cricket."

🇳🇵Manisha Koirala

Politics

b. 1970

"People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards."

🇳🇵Bhimsen Thapa

Politics

1775–1839

"...irrespective of castes, creeds or position in the society, all are same in the eyes of law."