Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

Daisaku Ikeda

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Practice
  • See
  • Down

• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • College
  • Beginning
  • Summer

• The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Work Hard

• And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Doubt

• My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • School
  • High
  • Kid

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Beginning
  • Years
  • Beginnings

• Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Think
  • Play
  • Years

• Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Done
  • Think
  • You

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Wish
  • Paris
  • Intellectual

• Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • May
  • Way
  • Travel

• Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Fight

• I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Tough

• Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Death

• It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Poem
  • Brief
  • Degenerates

• If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Different
  • Money
  • Want

• Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Men
  • Heart
  • History

• The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

  

  Socrates
  • Perfect
  • Human
  • Perfection

• The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Heart
  • Human
  • Mechanical