Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Quotes

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Mind
  • Justice
  • Star

• If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Sad

• I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Small
  • Airplane
  • Village

• I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Done
  • Training

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Father
  • Hand

• To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Consciousness
  • Pure

• From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Know
  • Flight
  • Birds

• I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style – her toughness and rigor.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Style
  • Her
  • Toughness

• Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Time
  • Home
  • Movie

• It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Society

• Scientology … is not a religion.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• Be strong to hope, O Heart!Though day is bright,The stars can only shineIn the dark night.Be strong, O Heart of mine,Look towards the light!

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Night

• Con mi encadenamiento a la tierra pago la libertad de mis ojos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Up

• People who go to concerts hear Beethoven's symphonies hundreds of times, but 'Star Trek' is recorded, so it's not played all the time.

  

  David Newman
  • People
  • Time
  • Star

• No excuses. Play like a champion.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • Champion
  • Excuses

• The mullein had finished blooming, and stood up out of the pastures like dusty candelabra. The flowers of Queen Anne's lace had curled up into birds' nests, and the bee balm was covered with little crown-shaped pods. In another month -- no, two, maybe -- would come the season of the skeletons, when all that was left of the weeds was their brittle architecture. But the time was not yet. The air was warm and bright, the grass was green, and the leaves, and the lazy monarch butterflies were everywhere.

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Architecture
  • Season
  • Flowers

• A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.

  

  Confucius
  • Accept
  • Clean
  • Visit

• I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Believe

• There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

  

  Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
  • Earth
  • Peace
  • Accept