Baba Amte Quotes

#1. My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking,

Sammy Davis Jr.

#2. Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of - until you find out you've got it. Once you realize you're ignorant, if you don't do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.

Daniel Pinkwater

#3. By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Rollo May

#4. I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate.

Mark Danner

#5. People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Daisy," he whispered, turning until she was tucked beneath him once more. "I didn't mean for this to happen." His fingers investigated the fragile angles of her face, the smiling curve of her lips. "But now it seems impossible that I held out as long as I did.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.

Neal Stephenson

#8. I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment.

Ransom Riggs

#9. I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear.

Baba Amte

#10. Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.

Baba Amte

#11. Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

Baba Amte

#12. The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

Baba Amte

#13. If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.

Baba Amte

#14. I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.

Baba Amte

#15. I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no obvious reason, I decided to buy a footstool.

Jeremy Clarkson

#16. I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.

Baba Amte

#17. Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Plato

#18. I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.

Baba Amte

#19. Happiness dies when not shared

Baba Amte

#20. TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

Lenny Bruce

#21. he sees a place where he will passively fade away, like wallpaper that gets too much sunlight and slowly loses its color. This

Joe Hill

#22. Joy is more infectious than leprosy

Baba Amte

#23. I owe my mum a sense of family. She has kept our family together. I have two brothers and a sister, and they all live a stone's throw away from each other in Liverpool.

David Morrissey

#24. When we pray for guidance in a group, we create a positive force field and align our personal energies towards a single direction.

Catherine Carrigan

#25. I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

Mark Twain