Chanakya Quotes

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

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• To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • School
  • Student
  • Chemistry

• The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Future
  • Enjoy
  • Matter

• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'

  

  Mara Liasson
  • School
  • Black
  • Law

• I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Love
  • Son

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Simple
  • Proud
  • Issues

• Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Want
  • Attitude
  • Intelligence

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Important
  • Live
  • May

• I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Kids
  • Never
  • Now

• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Judge
  • Bible
  • Our Lives

• Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Believe
  • Small
  • Amazing

• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Friends
  • College

• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Something
  • Afraid
  • Intimacy

• I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Respect

• Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

  

  Conrad Hilton
  • Great
  • God
  • Charity

• Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

  

  William Godwin
  • Mind
  • Self
  • Results

• It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Great
  • Action

• Gentlemen, the malicious and groundless Reports which have been spread, make it necessary for me to assure you, that notwithstanding all that has been said, I never have supported, nor ever will support, any Measure which can by any Means be prejudicial to the Protestant Religion, or in any way tend to establish Popery in this Kingdom.

  

  Charles James Fox
  • Support

• There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

  

  Chanakya
  • Mind
  • Mercy
  • Contentment