Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

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• In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Failure
  • Succeed
  • Option

• Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Business

• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Control
  • Best

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • Play
  • Honesty
  • Stand

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Different
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Know

• When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Respect

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • School
  • Know
  • Bright

• As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • You
  • Learn
  • Pressure

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Environment

• Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Life
  • Hair
  • Sex

• My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Great
  • Single

• We should be aware and constantly having conversations about the world because that's how you change it from the bigger standpoint rather than acutely trying to change things.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • World
  • Trying

• Whatever the reasons that I turn things down, I'm always happy when there's a good result, and I can enjoy it as a movie, you know? I don't feel like, 'Oh man, that was really good. I should have done it.' You have to make the decisions you have to make, whether it has to do with your family or repeating a character or whatever it is.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Good
  • Family
  • Done

• I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Enjoy
  • Confess

• Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Institution
  • Abused