Agnivesh Quotes

The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.

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• Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Silent
  • Presence

• I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • House
  • Man

• To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • May
  • First
  • Example

• The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Problem
  • Leadership
  • Economy

• I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • End
  • Doing The Right Thing

• When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Hope

• I was proud of how our guys bounced back. It would be easy to accept what was going on. We were up earlier in the game as well and gave it up. We'll just have to find a way to play better.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Up
  • Game
  • Play

• Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

  

  Celia S. Friedman
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Needs

• While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Commitment
  • Profound
  • Rejection

• Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Trouble
  • Teaches

• I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.

  

  William H. Macy
  • People
  • Feels
  • Needs

• For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Change
  • Losing
  • Resign

• A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Man
  • Interesting
  • Delineation

• GRINNING, DUCKING MY HEAD FOR BALANCE, I START TO SPIN WILDLY AS I CAN. THAT IS MY FAVORITE DANCE, BECAUSE IT CONTAINS A SECRET. THE FASTER I TWIRL, THE MORE I AM STILL INSIDE. MY DANCE IS ALL MOTION WITHOUT, ALL SILENCE WITHIN. AS MUCH AS I LOVE TO MAKE MUSIC, IT'S THE UNHEARD MUSIC THAT NEVER DIES. AND SILENCE IS MY REAL DANCE, THOUGH IT NEVER MOVES. IT STANDS ASIDE, MY CHOREOGRAPHER OF GRACE, AND BLESSES EACH FINGER AND TOE.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dance
  • Balance
  • Head

• If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Focus
  • Polio

• But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • She
  • Interesting
  • Comforting

• A man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Sad
  • Cry

• I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Obstacles
  • Doctrines
  • World prosperity

• The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.

  

  Agnivesh
  • Religions
  • Liberation
  • Theologies