Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

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• I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Today
  • Girl

• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Love
  • Impossible
  • Patience

• Smashing things is the violent way stupid mortal monkeys solve their problems.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Stupid

• From Castruccio

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

  

  Joan Chen

• When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'

  

  Donna Karan
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Time
  • Today

• Lucasfilm called me out of the blue, and I almost hung up because I thought it was a practical joke. This was right before 'Revenge Of The Sith' came out. Here you are, a big 'Star Wars' fan, talking about 'Star Wars' all the time, and you have your master replica lightsaber, and then you get a call from Lucasfilm for a job?

  

  Dave Filoni
  • Up
  • Time
  • Job

• When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.

  

  Jim Matheson
  • Service

• It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.

  

  Elizabeth Pena
  • People
  • Business
  • Movie

• '70s music is the kind of music I listen to. '70s clothes, I adore.

  

  Bel Powley
  • Music

• In North Koreans, the moment we are born, we don't know there's another life existing outside of our country. The regime always told us all the bad things about the outside world, describing America as full of thieves, all human scum, beggars, everyday people dying on the streets and hospitals.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I just want to work with wonderful people.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • People
  • Work

• I am completely half afraid to think.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Think
  • Afraid

• Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • World
  • Country
  • Forest

• What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Heaven
  • Ignorant
  • Told

• There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

  

  William Hague
  • Growth
  • Hard
  • Strategy

• I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.

  

  Susan Hayward
  • Woman
  • Poor
  • Determined

• If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot of ideas, let's put it that way - I have too many ideas. And my problem is, I stockpile ideas and I get lazy and I don't finish them, and next thing I know, I'm looking around and I've got a hundred song ideas, but are any of them any good? I don't know.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Problem

• I never substitute just to substitute. I play my regulars. The only way a guy gets off the floor is if he dies.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Play
  • Never
  • Substitute

• Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Substitute
  • Satyagraha
  • Violelence