Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

Mahatma Gandhi

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perfect deeds,/ More strong than all poetic thought.

Scott Stapp

It's Creed meets Zeppelin meets Doors with 7's (influence). So it's going to have some thump in the back and rock over the top of it -- but I'm not going to rap. I'm going to sing.

Andrew White

The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God

Lord Byron

And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

Algernon Swinburne

A creed is a rod,/ And a crown is of night:/ But this thing is God:/ To be man with thy might,/ To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.

Jim Melcher

What we have is a very small marginal edge of a positive view on this. Wall Street is cynical.

John Meyers

Gold is in a consolidation phase. The fundamentals of gold remain relatively firm, so prices will edge higher.

Hannah Smith

God stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if your wings are being developed.

Kemmons Wilson

It gave us a huge edge over our competitors, and from that day on, it wasn't a matter of selling franchises. It was a matter of taking orders for them.

Brent Goldman

It gives our kids an edge to what schools they are going to get in.

Don Luskin

I think we are going to edge higher this week, but it's going to be really boring.

Colin Clarke

I think that was an edge that we've missed, and missed a lot more than people think.

Michael Wistock

I watched him. He was on the edge of his seat. He was smiling and his eyes were really wide. I just got goose bumps. I kept the tickets because that's one of my favorite 'Star Wars' memories.

Ray Anderson

He's given us the edge of a working environment second to none.

Gerald Shields

Here's the deal. I want people reading. We are professionals, and we need to be reading and studying. We need to have a life-long learning mentality.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Amanda Voorhis

We have to become more proficient ball-handlers. They're learning from their mistakes.

Jamie Russell

He was learning a lot from his dad.

Richard P. Feynman

Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.

Richard P. Feynman

When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"

Richard P. Feynman

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

Troy Vincent

As you get older, youre always maturing, youre always learning something new about yourself.

Russell Brand

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

Richard Davidson

In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.

William Martin

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

Richard Rohr

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Uma Thurman

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

Walter Bagehot

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Saint Francis de Sales

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Saint Francis de Sales

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

William Godwin

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

Craig Thompson

Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.

Jill Soloway

To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'

Bill Owens

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

Carol Ierulli

I did not play sports, I was the studious one and I was always in the library.

Sarah Shahi

I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.

Kellan Lutz

I love Poseidon. His trident - his weapon - is really cool.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

Helmut Schmidt

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Bernie Bickerstaff

They've just got so many weapons that somehow, someone's going to make a play.

Nelson Mandela

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Rachel Nichols

I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'

Noam Chomsky

Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

William Wordsworth

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

William J. Clinton

That all depends on what "is" is.