Gautama Buddha Quotes

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

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• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Past
  • Fashion
  • Inspiration

• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Ordinary
  • Insult

• Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Life
  • History
  • Society

• The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Place
  • Soldiers
  • Depend

• From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • View

• What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.

  

  Earl Browder
  • World
  • War
  • Cold

• Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Great
  • Trust
  • Summer

• It's good to be alive.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Good
  • Alive

• I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Speech
  • Conscious
  • Figures

• I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

  

  Josh Zuckerman
  • People
  • Life
  • Alone

• If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Political
  • Action
  • Car

• The work these brave men and women do is extremely important, not only to our nation but to all the countries that our troops are stationed at around the world. I am grateful to the USO for having us and to all the troops who shared their day with us.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Passion
  • Stuff
  • Provocative

• They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Year
  • My Mind
  • Copy

• One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

  

  Gary Neville
  • You
  • Year
  • Poor

• I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Interesting
  • Car
  • Design

• If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Pure
  • Surroundings
  • Man's Mind