Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.

  

  Carl Paladino
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• As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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• Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
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• It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
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• I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Man
  • Sexy

• Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.

  

  Win Butler
  • Time
  • Live
  • Night

• We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Today
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• The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Remember
  • Eyes

• When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.

  

  Lucy Punch
  • Children
  • School
  • Done

• Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Good
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• I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'

  

  John Polson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Lindor is a good player. When I was 20, I wasn't conditioned like he is.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Good
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• I mean, you can?t spot a guy like that a second around this track with only a few laps to go. That was my own fault.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Guy
  • Track
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• Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Scene

• Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Suffering
  • Personality
  • Persons

• Times change and you have to adapt.

  

  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
  • Change
  • Times
  • Adapt

• But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Remember
  • House
  • Newspapers

• This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Facts
  • Stills
  • Formal

• We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Wells

• Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Idle
  • Industrious
  • Purification