Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jet Li

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Jet Li

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

George Sanders

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

Jason Momoa

Like it or not, I'm the new f***ing Aquaman buddy.

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.

Chris Campbell

Generally from an IT market standpoint, things slowed down in relation to the whole budget. But outsourcing generally remains strong.

When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me.

Francesca Annis

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

I wanted to do everything. I saw a need for everything: the walking trail, the shuffleboard courts. It's just we were way over budget as it is.

Thank you very much for your entire budget.

I'm frustrated about watching the City Commission meetings and seeing fire department budget cuts still not taking place,

I'm probably already in the red on the budgeting allotment for utilities.

I'm one of the few county managers in this state who would not go to meetings and fuss about my sheriff. We always got along. Sometimes we had some pretty tough conversations about what he wanted in a budget, what he thought he should be doing and what I felt like as county manager I could put in the budget and make a recommendation on.

It was such a small budget for such a large endeavor. We didn't want to set them up for failure.

Erwin McManus

I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.

Erwin McManus

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

Florence Nightingale

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

Flemming Rose

The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims.

Steve was my division commander. He helped me get through so much. He taught me how to prepare a budget and take inventory. He helped me wade through all the paper work. He helped all of us - that's just the kind of guy he is.

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 pretty neat being able to have my family come over for the Friday and Saturday games. I hear it will also be on TV, so it's cool that some of my buddies will be able to get together and watch it. It's sort of the hot ticket (in Vancouver) and all the hype makes it fun and exciting to play.

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.

James Hood

It will be a lot of help to the budget, ... Now we can get some things the budget didn't cover.