Ravi Shankar Quotes
My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.
Ravi Shankar
Quotes to Explore
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
Bartlett Sher
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Samuel Alexander
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
Vachel Lindsay
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The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
R. C. Sproul
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I feel like... I don't have a wife, I don't have a kids, but... I see rappers and I'm like, I know that's fake. I know how much you make, this is all bullshit. But people are buying into it, and you shouldn't have that power. I'm legit trying to make honest moves so that all of us can grow. I want to make a show where my sister can work on and become a producer because she can't get in, no one's leting her. I want to make things where people can actually grow. A place where people can actually be honest.
Donald Glover
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America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.
John Travolta
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It was wonderful and heartfelt. We told him he had a lot of friends who care about him and the issues he has embraced over his career.
Olympia Snowe
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These terrorists are the enemies of the Iraqi people themselves.
Jack Straw
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
Pablo Neruda
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I'll be a resource for him if he wants to use me, he'll have my full cooperation.
Eddie Charles Jones
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The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!
Marianne Williamson
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Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
Albert Einstein
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However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
William Labov
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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.
Oswald Chambers
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My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.
Chloe Neill
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The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.
David Swing
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Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.
Florence Nightingale
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The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.
Sara Teasdale
