Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

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• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Flower
  • Gardening

• A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Security

• Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Know
  • Laugh

• I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Trying
  • Anything
  • Tricky

• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Pay
  • Beatles
  • Tribute

• Love is the one wild card.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Stories

• Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • History
  • Age
  • Lie

• It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • She
  • Mother
  • Want

• I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Down

• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Path
  • Yourself
  • Obstacles

• I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Job
  • Know
  • Piano

• 'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Actor
  • Conversation

• The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Mad

• 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

• In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Food
  • Winter

• It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Fun
  • Two
  • Cartoon

• I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Value
  • Opinion

• For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Religion
  • Inward
  • Pious

• I've never felt acting just happened to me. It's always been a part of my life, and I - hopefully, I'll prove that with every project of mine.

  

  Mawra Hocane
  • Life

• The universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Universe
  • Companionship

• You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Violence

• Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Duties
  • Preference