Gautama Buddha Quotes

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Gautama Buddha

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• I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trying
  • Inspired
  • Lyrics

• I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Say
  • Realize

• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Why

• Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • California
  • Places
  • Software

• I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Seek
  • Satisfy
  • Objective

• When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Person
  • Feel

• People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.

  

  J. Smith-Cameron
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Character
  • High
  • Action

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Health
  • Read
  • Doctor

• I wanted to update the American people on what we know about the situation in Japan, what we’re doing to support American citizens and the safety of our own nuclear energy, and how we are helping the Japanese people contain the damage, recover and rebuild.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Energy

• I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Bad
  • Night

• Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Boxing

• It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Women
  • Strong

• I like talking about sex. Especially when I'm horny, but even when I'm not.

  

  John Travolta
  • Sex
  • Talking
  • Horny

• The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.

  

  William Bennett
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• Man has been breeding livestock for ten thousand years and has yet to come up with a monstrous sheep that can trample buildings and graze a whole golf course for breakfast.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Golf
  • Breakfast

• Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Silence

• The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Grieve