A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De) Quotes
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
Quotes to Explore
-
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
-
Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
-
I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
-
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
-
Word of mouth is everything.
-
I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
-
If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.
-
It's always fun to come in and mix up a show that's been on for awhile.
-
Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?
-
There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.
-
I'm pretty much a goodie two-shoes.
-
If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.
-
I was a dogged reporter.
-
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
-
You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.
-
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
-
I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
-
We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.
-
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
-
If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.
-
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
