Gautama Buddha Quotes
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.Gautama Buddha
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
Taylor Momsen -
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
Larry Holmes -
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton -
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Barbara Boxer -
I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
Kate Klise -
It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
Ian Fleming
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
Cara Delevingne -
The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
T. C. Boyle -
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Ram Dass -
People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
Pat Conroy -
I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
Raekwon
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Samuel Johnson -
Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
Jack McDevitt -
Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
Wallace Stevens -
In every government there must be somewhat fundamental, somewhat like a Magna Charta, that should be standing and unalterable... that parliaments should not make themselves perpetual is a fundamental.
Oliver Cromwell -
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
Anthony Trollope -
We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.
Marco Rubio
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The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.
Francois Hollande -
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
C. E. M. Joad -
Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on — otherwise he is useless.
David Gemmell -
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
Gautama Buddha