Gautama Buddha Quotes

If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

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• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • House
  • Man

• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Grow
  • Older

• Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Jealousy

• I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Done
  • Want
  • Pollution

• I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Stand

• To survive is to win.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Win
  • Survive
  • To Survive

• Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Great
  • Write
  • Working

• When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Me
  • Show
  • Bring

• If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Islamic
  • Terrorism

• Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Down

• Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
  • Change
  • Air

• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Wise
  • Chinese

• First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Struggle
  • Revolution
  • First

• Ken Noland would use concentric circles; he'd want to get them in the middle of the painting because it's the easiest way to get them there, and he want them there in the front, on the surface of the canvas. If you're that much involved with the surface of anything, you're bound to find symmetry the most natural means.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Painting
  • Canvas

• We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Worry

• What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.

  

  Euripides
  • Hate
  • Anger
  • Lovers

• To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Silent
  • Tongue

• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

  

  Plato
  • Bodies
  • Movements
  • Uniform

• When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.

  

  Doris Lessing

• If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Anger
  • Silent
  • Attained