U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

U.G. Krishnamurti

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• The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Scripture

• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• Music will always be my greatest passion.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Greatest

• I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Work
  • Job
  • Amazing

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Past
  • Never

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Confidence
  • Vision
  • Creativity

• I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Office

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • You
  • Wear
  • Wearing

• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Girl
  • Knows
  • Innocent

• I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Creative

• Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

  

  Martin McGuinness

• All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • America
  • Past
  • Purpose

• I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Diet
  • Reward

• Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Army

• If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Life
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