Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Research
  • Injury
  • Box

• Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Long
  • Me
  • Stop

• If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Interest
  • Killing
  • Probably

• I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Family
  • Husband
  • Daughter

• Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years, it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we'll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Care

• When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Done
  • Deep
  • Forgive

• I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ass hurts.'

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Thinking
  • Hurt
  • Medical

• Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

  

  H. Beam Piper
  • Texas
  • Killing
  • Excess

• It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Weird

• Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

  

  Craig Venter
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Drug

• But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Feels
  • Bigs
  • Deals

• Newcastle are absolutely besotted by injuries.

  

  Mark Lawrenson
  • Injury
  • Newcastle

• What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Secret
  • Injury
  • Leisure

• I think he must have some type of injury.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Injury

• And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Death
  • Killing
  • Sacraments

• Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

  

  James Cook
  • People
  • Self-Sacrifice
  • Self-Interest

• A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Help
  • Program
  • Recovery

• I'm a little bit shocked. I know how tough it is to come back from an injury and get yourself together. It's great she tried, but things don't always work out.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Together
  • Injury
  • Comeback

• No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Killing
  • Consequences
  • Resolved

• When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Worst
  • Stealing

• It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Music
  • Hear

• All great things are done for their own sake.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Great
  • Done
  • Things

• I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Work
  • Live
  • Fantasy

• Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Killing
  • Injury
  • Self-Interest