Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

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• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Think

• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Humor
  • Head
  • Tragedy

• The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Financial
  • Efficiency

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Trees
  • Gardening
  • Plants

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Watch

• My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Life
  • Father
  • Parents

• It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Black
  • Born
  • Been

• Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Art
  • Imagination
  • Colors

• God has pity on kindergarten children.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • God
  • Children
  • Kindergarten

• If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!

  

  A. A. Milne
  • High
  • Today
  • Wind

• We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I send my condolences, and the condolences of the Palestinian people to American President Bush and his government and to the American people for this terrible act....We completely condemn this serious operation.... We were completely shocked.... It's unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • People
  • American
  • Serious

• Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Science
  • Easy
  • Details

• A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Steadfast
  • Devotee
  • Rama

• I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Trust

• We can do school work on a plane. Actually when we get home we usually catch up what we can. However, some of the teachers are real bastards. But we got some really cool teachers. They just say, 'Yeah, we know what you do after school, so don't worry about it.' They know about the band and they are really into it.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Work
  • School
  • Teachers

• I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Home
  • Go

• The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Greatness
  • Step

• In the midst of darkness, light persists.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Darkness
  • Midst
  • Persists