Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

  

  Kanye West
  • Know
  • Better
  • Paid

• Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Love
  • Service

• For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Bad
  • Two
  • Juice

• In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."

  

  Karen Allen
  • Work
  • Real
  • Trying

• [Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Great
  • Actors
  • Level

• If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Way

• My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Hope
  • Vision

• Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

  

  Ian McDonald Foreigner
  • World
  • May
  • Lies

• You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Winning
  • Loses
  • Not Afraid

• I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Song
  • Sound

• If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Men
  • Perfect

• You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Conditions
  • Farmer
  • Predict

• Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Life
  • Future
  • Amazing

• Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People

• And so you paint pagodas and carp and phoenixes, but you also paint English country houses, and churches and coats of arms, the crucifixion, inscriptions in Persian and Arabic, carnations and tulips, mottos in Latin and knights in armour and Andromeda.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • English
  • Knights
  • Phoenixes

• Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.

  

  Josh Keaton
  • Childhood
  • Comic
  • Spider

• I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • House
  • Destruction
  • Wait

• Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

  

  Thomas More
  • Evil
  • Justice
  • Destruction

• I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Destruction
  • I Believe In
  • Conversion