Gautama Buddha Quotes

A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.

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• Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Infrastructure
  • Kenya

• I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.

  

  Cam
  • Home
  • Car
  • Tough

• In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Love
  • Parents

• I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Proud
  • Italian
  • Flag

• Some you win some you lose.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • You
  • Win
  • Lose

• I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Stress

• Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • America
  • Wind

• You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Up
  • Play
  • Nuances

• We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.

  

  Tzipi Livni
  • Words
  • Serious
  • Moral

• Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Mother
  • Half
  • Detroit

• As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Lawyer

• There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Single

• Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Nature
  • House
  • Purpose

• No one's trying to get with jugglers.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Trying
  • Jugglers

• A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Strong
  • Intuition
  • Instinct

• When a movie star sits and talks to you, it's almost always, and only, because she's promoting something.

  

  Rich Cohen
  • Something
  • Because
  • Almost

• There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Bible
  • Persons
  • Iron

• The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Worry
  • Persons

• A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Persons
  • Measure
  • Ruined