Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

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• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, but they offered another kid from the camp, which was fine. I laughed with the couple coaches I know who were there at the time, who were part of recruiting the other guy.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• I am alive when your fingers are.

  

  Anne Sexton

• The best education I have ever received was through travel.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Education
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• Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Product
  • Customers

• They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Fighting

• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Greatness
  • Mediocrity
  • Imitation

• I'm Adam Richman. A food fanatic who's held nearly every job in the restaurant biz. Now I'm on a mouth-watering journey to find America's greatest pig-out spots. And take on the country's most legendary eating challenges. I'm no competitive eater, just a regular guy with a serious appetite. This is my ultimate hunger quest. This is Man v. Food.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Men
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  • Job

• For me, as Yasmine, I do this every day. I wake up in the morning, and if I can do something to make someone feel better, I do it. I do not wait to be invited; I think that's the worst thing we can do. I make it my job to wake up every day and do one thing for one person and make them feel better.

  

  Yasmine Elmasri
  • Up
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• To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Future

• Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.

  

  Ian Lawton
  • World
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  • Future

• I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

  

  Saddam Hussein
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  • Space

• I could just cry. It's just a nightmare, a shame.

  

  Ann Miller
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• Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

  

  George Gilder
  • People
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  • Boring

• I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
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• I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Misrepresented

• The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Judgment
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• Having traveled for 45 years in the Arctic, what I've seen the last 15 years is shocking. We need to finally face up that we have an issue here and we need to get back to solutions.

  

  Will Steger
  • Solutions
  • Issue
  • Arctic

• It was better to be alone miserable. It was better to drown.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Miserable
  • Drown

• President Obama promised to usher in a new era of civility in our political discourse. We should make sure that, quote, "talk to each other in ways that heal, not in ways that wound," close quote.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • President Obama
  • Promised
  • Quote

• Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Kids
  • Daddy
  • Murderers

• We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Punishment
  • Creed
  • Murderers