Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.

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• Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Story
  • Hero
  • Look

• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Daily

• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Real
  • Father
  • Like

• I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Team
  • Going
  • Tough

• The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Earth
  • Best
  • Place

• Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Pretty
  • Actor
  • Grateful

• I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Effort
  • Language

• Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Think
  • House
  • You

• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Change
  • Poetry

• I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Collaboration
  • Getting

• Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Fall
  • Doing

• In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair with the car. Regaining a culture where cycling is seen as an everyday part of life requires time and effort. Of course in some British towns it never really went away - just look at Oxford and Cambridge. In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.

  

  Adrian Bell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Culture

• The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.

  

  Wendy McElroy
  • People
  • School
  • Problem

• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • End
  • Watch

• 'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Feeling

• Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Affairs
  • Departments

• Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga