Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Davidson

There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.

Richard Gere

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

Uma Thurman

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

Wesley Snipes

I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism , Christianity , and Islam , and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism . For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

Wade Davis

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

Milarepa

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

Mahatma Gandhi

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Woody Allen

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

William Nicholson

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

Will Durant

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Sarah Addison Allen

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

Samuel P. Huntington

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

Rebecca Wells

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

Robert De Niro

If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.