Gautama Buddha Quotes

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

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• The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Character
  • Way
  • Her

• As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Slow

• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Want

• Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Growing
  • Princess

• By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Job
  • Ideas

• We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Think
  • Security

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Music
  • Color

• It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Different
  • Morning

• My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Relationship
  • Body
  • Boss

• We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Health
  • Language
  • Resolve

• I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Long
  • Three
  • Radio

• Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Universe
  • Honesty

• Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Eyes
  • Sun
  • Shine

• What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Nice

• The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay aside the doubt; and if he has not hitherto done so, he must confess it, at least, as it is before God. But the scrupulous, who have doubts about everything, must follow another rule: they must obey their confessor. When he tells them to conquer their doubts, and to act against scruples, they should obey with exactness; otherwise they will render themselves unable and unfit to perform any spiritual exercise.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Done
  • Spiritual

• I need to play and I need to rest. I don't know how I'll do it.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Play
  • Rest
  • Need

• Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.

  

  Charlotte Ronson
  • Believe

• People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I worked hard.

  

  Garfield Sobers
  • People
  • Believe

• To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Believe
  • Force
  • Accept