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Violent means will give violent freedom.
That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
India is a geographical term.
It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
- Winston Churchill
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India,
history will look upon the act of
depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
- John Lennon
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man.
They die up to a point.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge
and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you,
you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is always known.
Thefts never enrich;
alms never impoverish;
murder will speak out of stone walls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
In every country and every age,
the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years
to have breakfast together,
but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
- Winston Churchill
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
I was so jazzed about sobering up
and starting a new life;
I had to stop at a bar
to get a drink just to calm down.
- the television series Glee
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- Jonas Salk
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower
Went up where the homeless had their home.
- Jewel
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,
and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
- Thomas Jefferson
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe
that had the lion's heart.
I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
- Winston Churchill
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying
as to put the right man in the right place.
- Thomas Jefferson
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