Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bhagavad Gita

The one who has faith, and is sincere, and has mastery over the senses, gains this knowledge. Having gained this, one at once attains the supreme peace.

Rig Veda

The person who is enthusiastic attains everything through hard work and efforts. He can subdue all his enemies.

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.

James Phillips

If Iran attains a nuclear weapon, the Saudis may try to compete with Iran by obtaining their own nuke, perhaps from Pakistan.

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

No one attains perfection by merely giving up work.

Sathya Baba

One who is full of love attains The states of Oneness with Him.

Carlos Ghosn

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Carlos Fuentes

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

Carlos Castaneda

Crows are not always available to give warning.

Carlos Castaneda

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Carl Andre

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

C. S. Lewis

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

C. S. Lewis

Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

Agnes Martin

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Marianne Williamson

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

Niels Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Carlos Castaneda

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Bryce Harper

I expect perfection from myself.

Carolina Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Jane Austen

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Cheryl Richardson

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

Charles Lamb

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Edmund Burke

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.