Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• British Rule

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• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Beautiful
  • Sports
  • Air

• When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Inspiration
  • Voice
  • Empowerment

• The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • America
  • Company
  • Irish

• I cannot abide being bored.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Being
  • Bored
  • Cannot

• I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.

  

  Washed Out
  • Simple
  • Start
  • Layers

• Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Price
  • Expensive
  • Ducks

• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

  

  Maimonides
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Confused

• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Control

• The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Different
  • Done
  • Why

• You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Family
  • Company
  • Run

• Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Writing
  • You
  • Tired

• According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Heart
  • American

• If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

  

  Sallust
  • Angry
  • Nothing
  • Anger

• We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Government
  • Singing
  • Silence

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

  

  Andrew Wiggins
  • Tree
  • Youth
  • Pruning

• So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life

• Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Job
  • Enthusiasm

• Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they were a magic carpet that whisked them out of the dreariness and drudgery of their lives at Mrs. Monday's and transported them to palaces in India, canals in Holland, pioneer stockades during the Indian wars, cattle ranches in the West, mountains in Switzerland, pagodas in China, igloos in Alaska, jungles in Africa, castles in England, slums in London, gardens in Japan, or most important of all, into happy homes where there were mothers and fathers and no Mrs. Mondays or Marybelles.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Children
  • India
  • Mother`s

• In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation in which man learns that salvation is obtained only as a divine gift an never as an acquisiton because of good works.

  

  G. C. Berkouwer
  • Good
  • God
  • Scripture

• India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • India
  • British Rule