Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Buddha

He is able who thinks he is able.

Bodhidharma

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Buddha

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Buddha

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Buddha

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Charles Dickens

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

Charles Dickens

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.

Charles Dickens

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.

John Dryden

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Augusten Burroughs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Confucius

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Alice Walker

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Robert Herrick

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Stephen Sondheim

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.