Gautama Buddha Quotes

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

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• My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • Change

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Way

• My dad is afraid of my laugh.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Dad
  • Laugh
  • Afraid

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Wise
  • Show

• I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Movie
  • See

• The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Spring

• But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Myself
  • Win

• I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Grew

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Answer
  • Take

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

  

  Tecumseh
  • Great
  • Country
  • Children

• During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Think

• I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Future

• I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Coast
  • Gulf
  • Louisiana

• All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Done

• I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Person
  • Angry

• Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Words
  • Fragrance
  • Practicing