Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Old

• When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Strategy

• I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Best
  • Struggle

• A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Success
  • Star

• δίχα δ' ἄλλων μονόφρων εἰμί

  

  Aeschylus

• I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • She
  • Job
  • Beautiful

• I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • People

• Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Kids

• I think that I have sold out sometimes.

  

  Ajay Naidu

• 'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Walking

• Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • May
  • Criticism

• Truth is a big concept.

  

  Lukas Foss
  • Truth

• Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

  

  Emma Stone
  • College
  • Smart

• SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

  

  Peter Lerangis
  • Music
  • Technology

• 'I would say, ‘Is there anything I can do?’-but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • English
  • Stupid

• I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Up
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Focus
  • Present
  • Balance

• The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

  

  William Styron
  • Pain
  • Visible
  • Anguish

• Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Dangerous

• I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Serious
  • Position
  • Assertion

• No one promised life would be easy or that the game wouldn't change without warning. There you are, all ready to pass Go and collect two hundred dollars, and suddenly Colonel Mustard is trapped in the conservatory, ranting and raving and waving a wrench, and no one knows what exactly a conservatory is or why anyone thought a wrench - of all things - would be a good murder weapon, or what branch of the military Colonel Mustard even served in! Has anyone seen his credentials?

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Money
  • Game
  • Change

• Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Assertion
  • Denies