Gautama Buddha Quotes

Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

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• And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Energy
  • Independent
  • Security

• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Friend

• It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • American
  • Dream
  • Myself

• The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Policy
  • Source
  • Consistent

• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Start

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Own
  • Worth

• But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Take
  • Punishment

• Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Together
  • Lost
  • Serious

• When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Science
  • Percent
  • Reliance

• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

  

  Ovid
  • Make
  • Materials
  • Surpass

• Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Want
  • You
  • Regardless

• 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

• I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Word

• I always feel that I compete with myself.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Feel

• Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Late

• Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• From the leg lamp to Ralphie's tongue getting stuck on a frozen pole to that BB-gun incident, 'A Christmas Story' has left its mark on all our brains, so much so that it sometimes feels like this story is our own.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Christmas
  • Gun
  • Frozen

• I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week.

  

  James Spader
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Understanding

• That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Mean
  • Memories
  • Broken

• As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

  

  DJ Jazzy Jeff
  • Work
  • Pretty

• All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Generation
  • Treasures
  • Gathering

• Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Work
  • Compassion
  • Liberation