Chinmayananda Saraswati (Swami Chinmayananda Saraswatiwas) Quotes

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.

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• I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Kiss

• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Society
  • Changes

• I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Working
  • Captain
  • Waiter

• I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Answer
  • Take
  • Fighter

• A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Lost

• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • American
  • Think
  • Myself

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• I'm an inventor.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Inventor

• As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Age
  • Father

• It is a great night. It is the end of Socialism.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Great
  • Night

• All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Job
  • Night
  • Jump

• African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.

  Chaka Fattah
  • American
  • Discipline

• It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Unique

• I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.

  

  Christen Press
  • Goals

• Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless... very much her own woman. She's a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She's supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Good
  • Family
  • She

• The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

  

  Andy Stern
  • Job
  • America

• For years, I swore I couldn't work out because my own sweat gave me a rash.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Work

• What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends.

  

  DeForest Kelley
  • Time
  • Done
  • Friends

• Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it's amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Work
  • Together
  • Amazing

• I think, when I was little, I was a little obsessed with anything that provided luck: Buddhas, 4-leaf clovers, heads-up pennies, even - gasp - a rabbit foot - which actually kind of disgusts me now.

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • Up
  • Luck

• I need a man with a good sense of humor and a kind heart.

  

  Joanna Krupa
  • Good
  • Heart

• The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Moving