Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marie Curie

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Thein Sein

The cover story of the magazine [TIME magazine] depicting a few individuals who are acting contrary to most Myanmar, is creating misconceptions of Buddhism.

Theaster Gates

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

Max Muller

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

Max Muller

Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran , which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka , the Tao-te-king of Laotze , the Kings of Confucius , the Veda and the Avesta .

Matthieu Ricard

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Matthieu Ricard

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

Matthieu Ricard

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Matthieu Ricard

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Matthieu Ricard

By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

Martin Scorsese

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Morris West

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

Mike White

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

Mike White

To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Look, bud. I’m trained. Ticked off. And I have a loaded weapon. You should take particular note of the loaded weapon part when annoying me. (Terri)

Nick Flynn

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

Mark Epstein

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.

Nikki Sixx

You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

Matt Dillon

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

Laurent Fabius

derail economic expectations of economic agents, and put public budgets in danger of new imbalances.

Wayne Allard

Despite an incredibly tight budget year, we still managed to meet our obligations to provide local governments with this critical funding.

Doing more with less. We receive less per pupil funding than DOE (state Department of Education) schools. We have learned to prioritize our budget and to put our money where our vision is.

The numbers are pretty good for a New Jersey governor heading full tilt into an unprecedented budget crisis. He is going to need some of that good will to get through the budget season.

The numbers are here. The budget is credible.

Everybody has 15% to 20% of fat in their budget.

That's practically business as usual. Given Michigan's recession and Detroit's past budget difficulties, it's not what I'd hoped for. But there does seem to be some restraint here, and that's a silver lining. Thirty-five million is a tiny increase in regards to the budget.

That's the figure we'll be working with in our budget.

The agency's budget is critically dependent on pleasing these senators. We found that there was some favoritism on the states that were represented,

That is something we'll have to work out with the legislature as they continue to work through the budget process.

Tax-and-spend rhetoric aside, California needs budget reform, because it's not a revenue problem, but a spending problem.

It's come to an end. We're on sure footing for the 2006 budget.

Jeff Bingaman

It's clear that the president and his advisers share our concern about the prospects of losing our competitive edge in the global economy. It's my hope that the administration's budget reflects this concern by making a significant increase in our nation's investment in science and technology.

Elizabeth Smith

It's something we didn't plan on in our budget.