Gautama Buddha Quotes

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

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• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

  

  Zola Budd
  • World
  • Small
  • Looking Back

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Men
  • Power
  • Change

• I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Society
  • Philosophy
  • Islamic

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Body

• I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Star
  • Brand

• New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • World
  • Home
  • City

• If you're sick, watch funny movies.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Funny
  • Movies
  • Sick

• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Lies

• If I fuckin' die without having written two, three, or four brilliant rock songs... I don't know why I lived my life.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Life
  • Why
  • Die

• I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

  

  Christopher Judge
  • Mind

• I've got an incredible family that I never get to see. I've missed so much. They know how much my career means to me, and they allow me to go and be the workaholic that they never get to see. They support me in that.

  

  Frankie Ballard
  • Family
  • Career
  • Support

• Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

  

  Michael Parkinson
  • Way
  • Chemistry
  • Quotations

• Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wise
  • Island
  • Vigilance