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

• I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Old

• 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

• Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Surprise
  • Pure
  • Scenarios

• Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Perfect

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

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Pure
  • Surroundings
  • Man's Mind