Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

A person who is innocent is extremely humble.

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• There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • Choose
  • Lots

• We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Trying
  • Society
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• I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Life
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• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Style

• Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Home
  • My Life

• Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Up
  • Think
  • Funny

• I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Up
  • Path
  • End

• I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Remember
  • Care

• The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Pain
  • Joy

• I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • God
  • Long
  • Trying

• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Different

• I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

  

  Arlen Specter
  • Responsibility

• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Remember
  • Peace

• When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Time
  • Culture

• When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• I'm still too hungry for whatever comes next.

  

  Colin Morgan

• The worry here is ... will the information that is collected here for one purpose be used for other purposes? ... The government history on this subject is not an encouraging one.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • History
  • Government
  • Purpose

• Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. I am but God's humble instrument; but you may rest assured that as long as I live no one shall put a shackle on your limbs; and you shall have all the rights which God has given to every other free citizen of this republic.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Long
  • Live

• The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Century
  • Enlightenment

• I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out 'Depeche Mode.'

  

  Brian Posehn

• When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Nice
  • Sweet

• A person who is innocent is extremely humble.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Humble