Gautama Buddha Quotes

When you realize how perfect or at least better than it could be everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

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• We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

  

  Gary Locke
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• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
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• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
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• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
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• I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
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  • Years

• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Time
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• I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Always

• I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Problem
  • Days
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• I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Myself

• The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Know
  • Play

• I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Love
  • She
  • Mother

• It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Political
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  • Speak

• Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Grammar
  • Longer

• I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Different
  • Done
  • Career

• When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Black
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• I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Black
  • Joy
  • Beauty

• For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Deep
  • Wine

• For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

  

  Learned Hand

• No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. 'In all our afflictions, He is afflicted.' He feels all our sorrows, wants, and burdens as His own. Whence it is that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

  

  John Flavel
  • Friend
  • Jesus

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• I'm always surprised to see the way "friends" will twist things or trash people behind their backs.

  

  Ariana Madix
  • Friends
  • Twist
  • Backs

• The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Present
  • Demand

• When you realize how perfect or at least better than it could be everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Sky
  • Laugh
  • Realize