Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • New
  • Year
  • Kiss

• No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Thought

• I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Change
  • Like

• I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Important
  • Money
  • Think

• We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Together

• The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election is he? Oh, if I were going to cut and run I'd have gone after the Falklands. Afraid? Frightened? Frit? Couldn't take it? Couldn't stand it? Right now inflation is lower than it has been for thirteen years, a record the right hon. Gentleman couldn't begin to touch!

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Gentleman

• If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Music
  • Help
  • Hand

• If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

  

  Christiaan Barnard
  • Work

• I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

  

  Chris Bohjalian
  • Time

• Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • House

• From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.'

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Hate
  • Hurt
  • Frustration

• I really like Cold Cave.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Cold

• I have no intention of disowning my record as a member of the McGuinty government.

  

  Kathleen Wynne

• It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because it's a memoir. So when the reviews come in, they all feel really personal. Some people are just going to hate you no matter what. Personally, I never believe good reviews.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• It is the same with art. Art will become the product of another duality in man: the product of a cultivated externality and of an inwardness deepened and more conscious. As a pure representation of the human mind, art will express itself in an aesthetically purified, that is to say, abstract form.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Mind
  • Art

• If Milosevic does not comply, I can tell you that NATO is ready to act.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Ready
  • NATO
  • Milosevic

• The court finds that it is necessary to grant (Moody) a new trial because it finds the jury misconduct undermined the integrity of the jury deliberations and public confidence in their verdict.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Court
  • Necessary
  • Finds

• When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Up
  • Black
  • Ink

• You don't want to be told, "Hey, do whatever you want." That's what we think of when we think of play. It's the thing where you get to do whatever you come up with in your own mind, all bets are off, there's no boundaries.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Eye
  • Chance

• The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Magician
  • Finds
  • Dazzling