Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

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• I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Successful
  • Problems
  • Lucky

• A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Time
  • Movie
  • House

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Running
  • Win
  • See

• I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagination

• That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Day
  • Moments
  • Same

• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Man
  • Ladies

• What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Together
  • Brain

• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Leader
  • United States
  • Run

• Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Communication

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Money
  • Done
  • Success

• In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Character
  • Small
  • Yourself

• In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Well
  • Snake
  • Worm

• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Verdict
  • Conclusive

• In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Morning
  • Paris
  • Appreciate

• The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Problem
  • Falling
  • Rimes

• Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Chinese

• Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Music
  • Moving
  • River

• If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Understand
  • Teachers

• Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Resistance