Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

When it comes to budget decisions that would help us fight the long war, they either change nothing or walk in the wrong direction.

Eric Hyman

When it's all said and done, I'm held responsible for our budget. If I had the latitude, there's nothing I would rather do than grant everybody's wishes. Unfortunately, I'm not in that position.

Jay Inslee

We can see the dollar figure cut out of the education budget that was put in by the Senate,

We hope the Legislature takes to heart our previous warnings about the budget shortfall and the need for fiscal responsibility.

We hope the leadership will find it in their hearts and minds and budgets to bump us up a bit.

We hope that the budget is such that next year, finally, these important investments can be made in our state?s future.

Jay-Z

Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me It's less than likely, Move back, Let I breathe Jedi knight, The more space I get the better I write, (Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write, I need the space to say whatever I like.

Jay Griffiths

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

Herbie Hancock

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

Herbie Hancock

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

Herbie Hancock

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

Jill Scott

Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am.

Buddhists and Taoists of the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan share the same roots and instructions and have always maintained sound exchanges.

Goldie Hawn

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

Goldie Hawn

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

Harriet Lerner

If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the ritual brushing of teeth. It's not realistic to believe that you will live your promises as a daily practice -- unless you're a saint or a highly evolved Zen Buddhist. Not where marriage is concerned. But you can make a practice of returning to your vows when the going gets rough.

James G. Frazer

Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence of Buddhism and Christianity from their primitive patterns. For it should not be forgotten that by their glorification of poverty and celibacy both these religions struck straight at the root not merely of civil society but of human existence. The blow was parried by the wisdom or the folly of the vast majority of mankind, who refused to purchase a chance of saving their souls with the certainty of extinguishing the species.

Jenny Offill

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

The type of Buddhist practices that I talk about in 'The Art of Happiness' have to do with reconditioning one's way of thinking and one's outlook, and one's perception and how one relates to people, ... That type of thing, any Westerner can practice at any time.

Howard Fast

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

Gov. Rell feels Len Boyle is doing a superb job as commissioner. The governor understands and shares many of the budget frustrations - but at her initiative, the state police will finally have a full complement of 1,248 troopers in 2006.

If everything else grows super-fast, and such a small portion of the budget grows at 1 percent, big deal.

If foreigners took this as a leading indicator that we were going to become irresponsible in the budget in a great variety of ways ... you could have a negative psychological effect.

Vicente Fox

I don't see risk for next year. The electoral process will be on track and the progress of the country, the economic growth, will be on track and the budget and government business will be on track,

Jim Doyle

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

Ara Parseghian

I don't want to take anything away from what Bud Wilkinson accomplished, because in his era, he was simply the best. But for any team to win 34 straight games today is just remarkable. You have to say that what USC has accomplished is one of the great feats in the history of college football.

However strong our revenue picture, we cannot for one minute drop our guard as it relates to combing the state budget for further spending cuts and program efficiencies.

If consumer confidence holds steady, and consumers spend the money from tax cuts, and once business see a clear sign of a rebound in sales, then around September or October, they're going to budget and change their targets for capital spending. Then, it takes a couple of months to hire people and get set up.

Hunter S. Thompson

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.

Anders Holm

On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it.

Our goal was to democratize search. We saw a large underserved market with the same search needs as big companies, but without the same IT budget and staff.

Overcrowded, multilingual, schools will not become manageable because the kids are suddenly the children of guest workers, instead of illegal aliens. Millions of unskilled laborers will not magically become high-earning taxpayers because they have work visas. State budget crises will not be alleviated, housing will not become more affordable, traffic will not become less congested, and middle class jobs will not become more plentiful if we give everyone who is here, or who wants to come here, a piece of paper that says they're legal.