Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

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• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Like
  • Now
  • Legs

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Die
  • Body
  • Sick

• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Beautiful
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I always say that when it comes to picking a single, firstly you have to go with what feels right and what your gut tells you.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Single

• It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Today

• Cinema has evolved, and it is high time we stop policing it so rigorously.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Time
  • High
  • Stop

• I try to be as clear as I can be.

  

  Demian Bichir

• Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

  

  Don Marquis
  • Gun

• I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

  

  James Herbert
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Catholic

• In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.

  

  Alex Shoumatoff
  • Wife
  • Couple
  • Sun

• As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

  

  David Johansen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future

• I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.

  

  Doris Lessing

• In the back of my mind. I always knew WWE was where I should be and where I would end up. Or where I could end up. Where I deep-down wanted to end up.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Deep

• Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Communication

• I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

  

  David Nail
  • Work
  • Charity

• I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Real
  • Fun
  • High

• Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Devil
  • Bird
  • Prophet

• The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

  

  Samuel Richardson
  • Life
  • Passions
  • Warfare

• It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Believe
  • Pretend
  • Waste Time

• I grew up in a happy household.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Grew Up

• When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Household
  • Spinning Wheel
  • National Flag