Gautama Buddha Quotes

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

Gautama Buddha

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• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Blood
  • Vampire
  • Imperialism

• If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Reality
  • Advice
  • Young

• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Death
  • Man
  • Die

• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • School
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Play
  • Proud
  • Prejudice

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Father
  • Me
  • Kind

• Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Dance

• Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Character
  • Know
  • System

• The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Future
  • Lost

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Drama
  • Moment

• A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

  

  Hale White
  • Power
  • True
  • Knowledge

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

  

  Martin Lel
  • Today
  • City

• Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. He knows well the limits of his knowledge and how much is waiting to be learned.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • Knowledge
  • Waiting
  • Ignorance

• I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

  

  James Horner
  • Writing

• About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Good

• Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Drops Of Water