Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind

Mahatma Gandhi

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Mahatma Gandhi

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

Mahatma Gandhi

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

Gene Wilder

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

Gene Wolfe

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Gene Wolfe

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. [...] We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Gene Wolfe

...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

Gavin DeGraw

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

Gavin DeGraw

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung

Gavin Newsom

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world

Gavin Rossdale

Being real is what is important.

Gaby Hoffmann

I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time.

Gael Garcia Bernal

I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.

Gabrielle Union

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

Gabrielle Union

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

Gabrielle Zevin

I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.

Gabrielle Zevin

if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

Gabrielle Zevin

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Frei Otto

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

Freida Pinto

I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

Frida Kahlo

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

Frida Kahlo

I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.

Freya Stark

Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.