Dalai Lama Quotes

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

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• Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.

  

  Barbara Johnson
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Better

• As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • God
  • Knowledge

• I no longer limit myself.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Myself
  • Limit
  • Longer

• There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

  

  Beck
  • Song
  • Know
  • Puzzle

• The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Jump
  • Nation
  • Oil

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • House
  • Beautiful

• That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Beautiful
  • Pleasure
  • Once

• The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Want
  • Language

• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Think
  • Strange

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Start

• God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • God
  • Perfect

• I have a lot of vanity.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Vanity
  • Lot

• Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Poetry
  • Actor
  • Writer

• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Mind
  • Class
  • Then

• Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.

  

  Candice Millard
  • America
  • Change
  • Perfect

• There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

  

  Mark Rydell
  • Good
  • Independent

• Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Violence
  • Criticize

• I grew up with a single mom, two brothers, and a sister, and after school, we would play outside then go home for dinner and play videogames together. It's something I enjoy doing, and it's also cheap entertainment compared to a movie or paying for cable. You pay $50 one time for a game, and you can play it as many times as you want.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Blood
  • I Believe
  • Martyrs

• Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Violence
  • Method
  • Justified