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.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Richard Clarke

He seems to have been reduced to being a commentator on Islamic news.

David Perry

It is Islam versus the rest of the world,

Reza Aslan

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

Reza Aslan

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

Reza Aslan

The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.

Reza Aslan

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

William Kristol

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

William J. Clinton

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

Richard P. Feynman

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Richelle Mead

Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.

Richelle Mead

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

Russell Brand

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

Rose McIver

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

Troye Sivan

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

Trip Hawkins

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

Travis Barker

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

Reid Scott

You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.