Morarji Desai Quotes

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

Morarji Desai

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• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Peace
  • Garden
  • Movement

• My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Parents
  • Movement
  • Students

• Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Movement
  • Dictatorship

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Up
  • Me
  • College

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Movement
  • Disappear

• I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Character
  • Movement
  • Rights

• My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Hair
  • Dead
  • Movement

• I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Language
  • Read
  • Ancient

• I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Black

• A large movement covers a small movement

  

  Dai Vernon
  • Small
  • Movement

• The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

  

  Alveda King
  • Justice
  • Victory
  • Movement

• Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Ancient
  • Love You

• The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Success
  • Party
  • Tea

• Live the New Life 1:13. Men wore long robes and would tuck them into their belt, and thus “gird up their loins,” so they could move more freely and quickly. Although the image also occurs elsewhere in the *Old Testament, here Peter may specifically allude to the Passover (Ex 12:11): once God’s people had been redeemed by the blood of the lamb (1 Pet 1:19), they were to be ready to follow God forth until he had brought them safely into their inheritance (cf. 1:4), the Promised Land. Thus they were to be dressed and ready to flee. “Sobriety” in ancient usage meant not only literal abstinence from drink but also behaving as a nonintoxicated person should, hence with dignified self-control. 1:14

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Ancient
  • Meant
  • Sobriety

• A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Movement
  • Image

• To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Bread
  • Starving

• People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Together
  • Brains

• It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Grass
  • Discredit
  • Walt

• The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

  

  Morarji Desai
  • Movement
  • Ancient
  • Vegetarian Ancient Modern Movement