Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
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I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.
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When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and that and the other thing.' Mr. Sirk would ask, 'May I speak with you?' and sit down and say, 'I think this should be done this way. And how do you feel about it? Do you feel it that way?'
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
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I read French much better than I speak.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
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I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on 'Speed Racer' and 'Star Blazers' and 'Battle of the Planets,' and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.
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It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
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How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
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The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
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A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.
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We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.
