Buddha Quotes

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• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Think
  • Birth

• Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Up
  • Science
  • Successful

• For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Time
  • Together
  • Service

• I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Better

• I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • First
  • Piano
  • Wrote

• Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Great
  • Business
  • High

• There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • New
  • Explore
  • Finding

• There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Different
  • Day

• Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Power
  • Law

• If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Sound
  • Guitar
  • Too Much

• Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Help
  • Me
  • Study

• I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Night
  • Productive

• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Women
  • School
  • Dad

• Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Friends
  • Cold

• I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Snake

• The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Drunk

• I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

  

  Ellen Willis

• Now, I admire The Sims as a game, but from a story viewpoint, there are two glaring problems. First, your relationship with those characters is like they're bugs in a jar. There's no empathy. And secondly, you've got this clunky, chemistry-set interface between you and them, with bars to show how tired or angry they are. It's all tell not show.

  

  Dave Morris
  • Game
  • Relationship
  • Tired

• The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Together
  • Broken

• 'Oh my precocious one,' she said. 'You never fail to charm me. Bisexual is it, how Byronic and charming. Doesn't that double's one's chances for love? I'm so delighted.'

  

  Anne Rice
  • She
  • Bisexual

• The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Money
  • Soul
  • Selling

• If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

  

  Brett Young
  • People
  • Why
  • Song

• A jug fills drop by drop.

  

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