Ninian Smart Quotes

I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.

Ninian Smart

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• Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

  

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• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

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• I read everything and anything. I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
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• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

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• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

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• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

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• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

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• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
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• As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.

  

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• I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.

  

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• All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.

  

  Barack Obama
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• They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

  

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• If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

  

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• Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?

  

  Abigail Adams
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• As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

  

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• No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• The gipsy tents are on the down,The gipsy girls are here;And it's O to be off and away from the townWith a gipsy for my dear!

  

  Arthur Symons

• 'You finally fell in love, I see,' said Salo.'Only an Earthling year ago,' said Constant. 'It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

  

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• A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

  

  Boethius
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• The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..

  

  Kevin Spacey
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• I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.

  

  Ninian Smart
  • God
  • Belief
  • Buddhism