Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

  

  Mal Peet
  • Way
  • Try
  • Without

• I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Political
  • Progress

• I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Up
  • Period
  • Dress

• The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Poetry

• I was at the mercy of somebody else to just give me a job in the years after 'Boy Meets World' ended, whereas if I had gone to college and had when a Plan B, and it was something else that I loved, I could've walked away at any point.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • World
  • Job
  • College

• The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

  

  David Hume

• There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?

  

  Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.

  

  Philippe Halsman
  • True
  • Today

• Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.

  

  Picabo Street
  • Work
  • Energy

• As an actress, you have to be very naive.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel

• A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Done
  • Giving
  • Kind

• Worst of all was the blizzard. People from the east or west coasts of America may think they have seen a blizzard. Likely they have not. It is almost exclusively a phenomenon of the plains, and got its name on the plains. It entailed wind-driven snow so dense and temperatures so cold that anyone lost in them on the shelterless plains was as good as dead.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.

  

  Zach Sobiech
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Fighting

• Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Flowers
  • Weeds

• I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Why
  • She
  • Fun

• What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Believe
  • Determined
  • All Things

• Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Ideas
  • Knows
  • Sitcom

• Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Everyday

• I am a big guy and happen to play a position that requires you to be relatively quick. I can't let up now. I have to work every day to be better next year.

  

  Garrett Atkins
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Bigs

• Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.

  

  Walter Russell
  • Secret
  • Musician
  • Piano

• Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Instruments
  • Potency
  • Self-propagating