Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.
Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes to Explore
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.
Pete Seeger
When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
Andy Grove
I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.
M. F. K. Fisher
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
Madame de Stael
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
Abraham Lincoln
Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.
Norman Vincent Peale
That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
Plato
A horse is simply a horse.
Avicenna
That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
Wallace Stegner
Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.
Scott Snyder
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
Mike Tyson
