Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bhagavad Gita

A disciplined person, enjoying sense objects with senses that are under control and free from likes and dislikes, attains tranquillity.

Bill Vaughn

When a fellow you knew in school attains some lofty public office, you're glad for his sake - but somewhat apprehensive for the future of the country

Clare Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.

Bhagavad Gita

For the wise who seeks to attain yoga (of meditation or the equanimity of mind), Karma-yoga is said to be the means; for the one who has attained yoga, the equanimity becomes the means (of Self-Realization).

Eric Liu

If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.

Henry Cabot Lodge

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.

Joyce Banda

I have always said that I want Malawi to attain growth that should not just be seen in GDP, but in the growth of opportunities for all, protection for all, and equality for all.

Rig Veda

Human beings perform good karma (deeds) in order to attain success.

Marco Rubio

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

Bhagavad Gita

There are two types of human beings in this world: the divine, and the demonic.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

Adam Hamilton

Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

Voltaire

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Deborah Clark

We do our very best. But we are human beings and once in a while we make an error. It was an honest mistake.

Emily Browning

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.

Joseph Rotblat

We appeal, as human beings to human beings. Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open for a new paradise; if you cannot there lies before you the risk of universal death.

Sathya Baba

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy). Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

Brigitte Boisselier

I believe that we indeed have been created by intelligent beings -- those beings coming from space ..., ... Usually, people have a little smile and say, 'Well, she's crazy thinking about that.'

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Bodhidharma

To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

Bodhidharma

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Andy Dick

I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.

Drew Barrymore

Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma

Dalai Lama

The way of presentation is different according to each religion. In theistic religions like Buddhism, Buddhist values are incorporated. In nontheistic religions, like some types of ancient Indian thought, the law of karma applies. If you do something good, you get a good result. Now, what we need is a way to educate nonbelievers. These nonbelievers may be critical of all religions, but they should be decent at heart.

Dalai Lama

Spend some amount of time alone everyday.

Dalai Lama

The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.

Dalai Lama

Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'

Dalai Lama

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

Annie Parisse

Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole.

Wilma Askinas

Sometimes you have to be silent in order to be heard.

Jessica Raine

I've been thinking recently about all the qualities you need in order to be an actor. First and foremost, you've got to have a thick skin and give out an 'I don't give a monkey's what you think' kind of vibe, while at the same time really caring what everyone thinks. You've got to be tough and sensitive at the same time.

Haan Phelps

This is not a restaurant. They can't come in here and order New Orleans shrimp, because I don't know I'm going to get reimbursed for it.

Bill Griffith

Zippy has no problem with the irrationality of the universe, whereas most of us are desperately trying to make order out of the universe, and our lives.

Kevin Jackson

You should not have to pay in order to win or collect.

Arjun Makhijani

This is being transparently done to promote a very poor site . . . in order to accommodate the industry,

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Mike Friday

Day three is when you have to perform at your peak.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

O. Singh

They are always at peace, and immaculately pure, they perform service for the True Guru.

Jim Brown

During the tournament we didn't perform the way we should.

Earl Woods

The reason I didn't come up was that I wanted to give him the space to perform and be himself. It's all part of the plan.

Jim Brown

We are trying to see who can perform under those conditions.

D.J. Strawberry

There's no excuses. You have to be ready to play. I feel I let my team down today because I just didn't perform today. I didn't do anything out there on the floor. I was terrible.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.