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

• Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blessed
  • Littles
  • Speech

• I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

  

  William Tecumseh Sherman
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Music
  • Punk
  • Pure

• Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter than snow. Bless His holy name!

  

  William J. Seymour
  • Snow
  • Pure
  • Sanctification

• A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Novel
  • Impression
  • Balanced

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

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Pure
  • Surroundings
  • Man's Mind