Gautama Buddha Quotes

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

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• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Situation
  • Strive

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Me
  • Honesty
  • Embarrassment

• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Business
  • Feeling

• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Dignity
  • Begins
  • Boasting

• If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Think
  • Old
  • Grow

• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Kind
  • Being
  • Radio

• I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Stories
  • Desires
  • Fears

• Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • U.S.
  • Within
  • Insults

• It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Mortal
  • Despairing

• I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Acting
  • Little
  • Directing

• Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel - only worse.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Cold

• There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Time
  • Words
  • Listening

• The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Party
  • Creativity

• No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

  

  Mathew Brady
  • Life
  • World

• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • High
  • Pretty

• I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • World
  • Fight