Matthieu Ricard Quotes

Working to spare animals the immense suffering they undergo does not diminish by one iota my determination to alleviate human misery. Needless suffering must be done away with wherever it is, in whatever form it takes. This is a war that has to be waged on all fronts, and it can be.

Matthieu Ricard

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• It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

  

  Saint Augustine
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  • Me
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• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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  • Compassion

• It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.

  

  Dan Coats
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• You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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  • May
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• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
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• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
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  • Doing

• This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Reality
  • Immigration
  • Trail

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

  

  Ian Smith
  • World
  • Years
  • Everything

• I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Love
  • Power
  • City

• It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • World
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sports

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

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  • Fear
  • Garden

• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
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  • Retreat
  • Cave

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

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• Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Up
  • Past
  • Individual

• I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'

  

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  • Women
  • Game
  • Know

• Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

  

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  • Mean
  • Say

• He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.

  

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  • People
  • Good
  • Son

• I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • War
  • Reading
  • Star

• I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• Working to spare animals the immense suffering they undergo does not diminish by one iota my determination to alleviate human misery. Needless suffering must be done away with wherever it is, in whatever form it takes. This is a war that has to be waged on all fronts, and it can be.

  

  Matthieu Ricard
  • Done
  • War
  • Suffering