Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

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• I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Country
  • Boy

• In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Country
  • America
  • Health

• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Value

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Community
  • Value

• Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Society
  • Thought

• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Own
  • Tragedy
  • September

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Failure
  • Most

• Gods always love the people who make em.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Love
  • Always

• I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Watching

• Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

  

  Larry Page
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Where

• Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

  

  Vernon Duke
  • Why
  • New York
  • Autumn

• People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Deep
  • Humor

• What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • King
  • Prison
  • Him

• Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Success
  • Dream

• To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Women
  • Love
  • Pain

• I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn't be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn't upset people, really.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • People
  • Different
  • Bad

• You have to be very careful when you let someone win.

  

  James Caan

• I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.

  

  Ian Christe
  • Dream

• It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those skills are in the service of something a bit more noble with acting, I hope.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • True
  • Hope
  • Service

• Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Service
  • Acts
  • Ahimsa