Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.

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• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Stage

• The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

  

  Ma Jian
  • World
  • Stage
  • China

• Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • First
  • Stage
  • Without

• I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Stage
  • Off

• It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Weird

• I've been on stage since I was eight.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Stage
  • Been
  • Since

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Look

• I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Fear
  • Stage
  • Scared

• What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Days

• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Leader
  • Stage
  • Orchestra

• I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Band
  • Stage
  • Judging

• It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Time
  • Live
  • Stage

• I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up

  

  Geoffrey Holder
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Knows

• What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Lost

• I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Understanding
  • Humans
  • Swear

• Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Character
  • Humans

• Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Good
  • Music
  • Influence

• So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Ideas
  • Humans
  • Essentials

• Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Great
  • Surfing
  • Kiteboarding

• Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

  

  Eric Ambler
  • Chance
  • Absurdity
  • Superhuman

• We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • World
  • Jobs
  • Failing

• I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Training
  • Research
  • Self-Taught

• This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Humans
  • Stage