Gujrati Quotes

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,

and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern

with no superhuman authority behind it.

Man is priest,

and scholar,

and statesman,

and producer,

and soldier.

One never notices what has been done;

one can only see what remains to be done.

Civilization is a stream with banks.

The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing,

stealing, shouting, while on the banks,

unnoticed, people build homes, raise children,

sing songs, write poetry, and generally live.

Wishing to be friends

is quick work,

but friendship is a slow

ripening fruit.

There is only one corner

of the universe you can

be certain of improving,

and that's your own self.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action,

and we have trusted only to rhetoric.

If we are really to be a great nation,

we must not merely talk;

we must act big.

Be inspired by others,

but never imitate them.

Usually,

when I'm rappin',

I'm creating a big story,

a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Hell, there are no rules here

we're trying to accomplish something.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Every life has equal value.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it

and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief

that it is in course of ultimate extinction,

or its advocates will push it forward,

till it shall become alike lawful in all the States old as well as new

North as well as South.

Stand with anybody that stands right,

stand with him while he is right and part with him

when he goes wrong.

You can either see yourself as a wave,

in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

You’re never too old to be childish.

Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.

The grass is not always greener on the other side.

It’s greener where you water it.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Art is never finished,

only abandoned.