Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
Quotes to Explore
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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A silent man will die in the silence of his foolishness.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
