Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Reality
  • Funny
  • Realize

• Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Home
  • Most
  • Google

• How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Think
  • Numbers

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• You look marvelous!

  

  Fernando Lamas
  • You
  • Look
  • Marvelous

• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Child
  • Toy
  • Youngest

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Space

• Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Feeling
  • Pain
  • Religion

• Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Deep
  • Beauty
  • Skin

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Home
  • Night
  • Nice

• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Know
  • Hard

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Stories
  • Kiss
  • Terrible

• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Show

• I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Society

• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

  

  Livy
  • Nature

• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Quality

• The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Joy

• I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • I Know
  • Forsakes