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

• I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Safe
  • Arms
  • Convinced

• I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Clothes
  • Knowing
  • Refuse

• The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Destruction
  • Experiments
  • Asceticism

• Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Poet
  • Superstition

• Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Sandbox

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Destruction
  • I Believe In
  • Conversion