Gautama Buddha Quotes

Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

Gautama Buddha

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• I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Power
  • Revolution

• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Design
  • Part
  • Strategy

• Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Ideas

• If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Me
  • Effort
  • Problems

• In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Money
  • Hero
  • Television

• And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • Man
  • Law

• My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Father
  • Military

• To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Parents
  • Know
  • See

• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • You
  • Insanity

• A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Democracy
  • Practice
  • Forced

• For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.

  

  Sam Keen
  • World
  • Society
  • Stop

• Everyday rape incidents are being highlighted as if the entire state has become the land of rapists. Rape is sought to be glorified by these people. This will not be tolerated by people. I would like to say that negative journalism only destroys and it is time to champion positive journalism.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • People
  • Time
  • Positive

• When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

  

  Desmond Tutu

• Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

  

  Alex North
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Different
  • Myself

• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Forget
  • Name

• When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

  

  Bonnie Wright
  • Life

• It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..." "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Water
  • Worry
  • Silence

• Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Star
  • Lightning
  • Life Is Short