Ramakrishna Quotes

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

Ramakrishna

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Think
  • Feel

• I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Home
  • Night

• I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Quirky

• I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Human
  • Laugh
  • Absurd

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Made
  • I Love

• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Simple
  • Couple
  • Risk

• It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • Police
  • Force
  • Obvious

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Earth
  • Conversation
  • Rise

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Real
  • Know

• A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.

  

  William Morris
  • World
  • Lost
  • Pain

• … We live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues to put out fucking albums. God-dammit! If you're gonna kill somebody, have some fucking taste. I'll drive you to Kenny Rogers' house.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• Music imitates the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

  

  Aristotle
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Anger

• The Kirk of Scotland as at present guidit … is a kind o' Papery wi' fifty Papes instead o' ane.

  

  John Buchan
  • Present

• When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

  

  Adrienne Barbeau
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Soul
  • House
  • Body