Gautama Buddha Quotes

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

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• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Water
  • Sweet
  • Lose

• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Morning

• Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Because

• I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Children
  • Future
  • Flowers

• Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Words
  • Powerful

• I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Amazing
  • Always
  • Husband

• Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Love
  • Religion
  • For Him

• I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Day
  • Sometimes
  • Bag

• Chiranjeevi sir is extremely humble and gracious. He is a superstar, but he is one of the nicest, sweetest, most grounded individuals.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Humble
  • Grounded
  • Gracious

• I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • World
  • Champion
  • Chess

• The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Hypocrisy
  • Treachery
  • Betrays

• A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Philosophy
  • Social

• I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Knowledge
  • Child
  • Wandering

• I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

  

  Confucius
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Wise Man

• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Change
  • Taken

• A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

  

  Richard Swift The Arcs
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Wise Man

• The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wise Man
  • Island
  • Flood