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
  • Law
  • Me
  • Seems

• 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
  • God
  • Religious
  • 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
  • Future
  • Political
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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
  • Trying

• 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
  • Live
  • True
  • House

• 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
  • Know
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

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

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

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

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• 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

• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Always
  • Mexico
  • Territory

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choice
  • Miserable
  • Motivate

• A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Good
  • Help
  • Want

• In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.

  

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  • Mind

• A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Asking
  • Species
  • Definition

• It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Up
  • Book
  • Fun

• The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

  

  Jud Wilhite
  • Suffering
  • Bible
  • Move

• 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