Michael Huffington Quotes
The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.Michael Huffington
Quotes to Explore
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Dalai Lama -
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
Zadie Smith -
There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
Vidya Balan -
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
Carlos Slim -
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
Tariq Ali
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
Patricia McBride -
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
Garry Wills -
The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
Walter Kirn -
Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.
Mamata Banerjee -
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles -
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
Calvin Coolidge
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Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.
Nadine Labaki -
Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
J. P. Donleavy -
Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourdeur le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.
Marguerite Yourcenar -
I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.
Carolina Herrera -
To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
Prem Rawat -
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
Eric Cantona
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All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
Andre Balazs -
Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
Haile Selassie -
There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.
Lili Simmons -
The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
Naveen Jain -
What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
Christina Romer -
The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.
Michael Huffington