Gautama Buddha Quotes

The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

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• I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Different
  • Real
  • Feeling

• A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Need
  • Stage
  • Fix

• The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Men
  • Know
  • Best

• I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • Best
  • Depression

• I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • May
  • Party
  • Problem

• I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • World
  • Think
  • See

• Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c’est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu’est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle.

  

  Victor Hugo

• My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Advice

• The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Lies

• Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.

  

  Edward Young
  • She
  • Morning
  • Heaven

• I think the process of 'I Love It' becoming such a big song opened my eyes to sides of the industry that I'd never been aware of, which I wasn't so into.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Song
  • Eyes

• Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.

  

  Princess Eugenie of York
  • World
  • Friends

• Fabulosity. It's a state of being.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons

• Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Universe

• I've just always had a soft spot for character actors.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Character

• In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Age
  • Failure

• He did look like the Monopoly man, but it was smooth. I thought he was going to pull a monocle out. That would have been awesome. And did you see the pocket watch? That was incredible.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Men
  • Looks
  • Incredibles

• Sun-girt City, thou hast been Ocean's child, and then his queen; Now is come a darker day, And thou soon must be his prey.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • City
  • Sun
  • Ocean

• Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong,Come and love your daddy all night long.All right now, hey hey, all right.See the girl with the diamond ring;She knows how to shake that thing.All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey.Tell your mama, tell your pa,I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas.Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Long
  • She
  • Night

• The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • King
  • Ocean
  • Kindness