Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Josiah Royce

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

Bhagavad Gita

A disciplined person, enjoying sense objects with senses that are under control and free from likes and dislikes, attains tranquillity.

Bill Vaughn

When a fellow you knew in school attains some lofty public office, you're glad for his sake - but somewhat apprehensive for the future of the country

Clare Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.

Bhagavad Gita

One attains the highest perfection by devotion to one's natural work. Listen to Me how one attains perfection while engaged in natural work.

Bhagavad Gita

One attains the eternal imperishable abode by My grace, even while doing all duties, just by taking refuge in Me.

Bhagavad Gita

One attains peace in whose mind all desires enter without creating any disturbance, as river waters enter the full ocean without creating a disturbance. One who desires material objects is never peaceful.

Bhagavad Gita

Such a person soon becomes righteous and attains everlasting peace. Be aware, O Arjuna, that My devotee never falls down.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

William Makepeace Thackeray

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations,

Pankaj Mishra

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

Mahatma Gandhi

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Mahatma Gandhi

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Mahatma Gandhi

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

Thomas Powell

Joy, living in the moment, plus lack of fear equals abundance. Live for the moment without fear and you have all you truly need.

Richard Adams

There was just one woman. So she was just given a hard time, teased and not shown the respect of equals that she should have had.

Marsha Blackburn

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

Mark Rein

Oh yeah, it's a lot of fun. Mark Rein equals target practice!

Charlotte Rampling

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

Martin H. Fischer

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Joni Vaughan

When you give a team like Crowley six runs, and you only have four hits, that equals a loss.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Bill Tyler

I liked helping people. I loved being a policeman. I had a lot of friends there and I really missed it when I got off.

Jeffrey Robbins

I've had friends jumped before, but it wasn't with weapons and nothing on this scale.

Shawn Woods

It's good to be at home, ... It's neat to have parents and friends come and watch. We had more than 100 people there, and that is a good crowd.

John Cassidy

It's good if you really want to make friends with the person sitting next to you,

Kenneth Smith

It's good here. I've got friends. That's one there. That's one of them.

Matt Kelley

When we're on tour, to make 8,000 friends would take a long time.

Lisa Bailey

It's just fun being with friends and to come out and have a good time. Practice is serious, this is fun.

Lil' Kim

A lot of people let me down, ... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.

Sheikh Ahmad

He is very stubborn. When he puts his mind into something, he will do it.

Alex Solis

He really won it very easy. That's what I had in my mind, not to squeeze him.

Heywood Broun

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Dave Tippett

His mind is in the right place now.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

Shane Battier

We're playing to win. I've always been of the mind-frame that you've got to play.

Rick Tocchet

We've got to try to win 2-1 right now. That's our mind-set. That's what we tried to stress today. (We said) 'Don't worry about scoring a ton of goals, just try to win 2-1' and we did.

Martin Brodeur

I thought we played really well. We've got to get the third period out of our mind and be comfortable with how we played.

Darrell Bevell

It had to do with his feet, and where his mind was at the time.