Gautama Buddha Quotes

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

Gautama Buddha

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• Drink
• Good Luck

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• The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Need
  • Show

• It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Will
  • Trees
  • Little Things

• We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • People
  • Work

• The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Real
  • Destiny
  • Role

• What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Community
  • Neighborhoods

• Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Character
  • Person
  • Illusion

• There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Live
  • Community

• For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Attack
  • Arizona
  • Commemoration

• Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Fault
  • Labrador
  • Fearsome

• Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

  

  Aristotle
  • Practice
  • Happiness
  • Virtue

• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • You
  • Surrender

• No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Chance
  • Born
  • Ability

• What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Knowledge
  • Force
  • Function

• I auditioned for Ted Bundy and the director Matthew Bright and we really hit it off. He cast me as Bundy's girlfriend.

  

  Boti Bliss
  • Girlfriend
  • Director
  • Hit

• To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Virtue
  • Drink
  • Good Luck