Gautama Buddha Quotes

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred.

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• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Popular
  • Seems
  • Celebration

• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Past
  • Bible
  • Face

• I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Really
  • Fascinated

• I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Determination

• A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Money
  • Business
  • Today

• My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Woman

• Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Time
  • War
  • Enemy

• Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Great
  • Acting
  • Popular

• Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Character
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Child
  • Deserve

• I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Friends
  • House
  • Me

• Παύροις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐστι συγγενὲς τόδε,φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ' ἄνευ φθόνων σέβειν.

  

  Aeschylus

• The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • History
  • Affirmation

• I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.

  

  Pete Carroll

• Maybe one day when I'm retired, I can turn around and tell you, 'Hey, I was really good at that. Maybe I was the best.'

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Good

• We know how hard we've worked, we know how our choreography makes us feel empowered. We have our voices, which are incredible and kind of surpass anything else.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony

• I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I do my best; I put out things I believe in and if you don't like it then pass on to something else.

  

  Rob Halford Judas Priest
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Things

• Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

  

  Edward Smith
  • Free
  • Sport
  • Human Heart

• In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Master
  • Source

• Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Sports
  • Discipline
  • motivation

• You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Discipline
  • Master
  • Trains