Ajahn Brahm Quotes, Play Quotes, People Quotes

How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It’s just people being people, the world being the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ajahn Brahm Quotes , Play Quotes , People Quotes

I understand why people are discouraged about Iraq. I can understand that. We live in a, you know, world in which people hope things happen quickly. And this is a situation where things don't happen quickly because there's, you know, a very tough group of people using tactics - mainly the killing of innocent people - to achieve their objective, and they're skillful about how they do this. And they also know the impact of what it means on the consciousness of those of us who live in the free world. They know that.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Mean Quotes , People Quotes

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Believe Quotes , People Quotes

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , People Quotes , Religion Quotes

These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we're doing, and they consistently thank us. "I agree your results aren't always right," they'll say, "but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it's an interesting process because it's messy, and no other shows show that."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Real Quotes , People Quotes

Libya is a great country, a respectful country, and the Libyan people are great people.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al-Saadi Gaddafi Quotes , Country Quotes , People Quotes

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , People Quotes , Tao Quotes

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Food Quotes , People Quotes

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , People Quotes , May Quotes

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Hard Work Quotes , People Quotes

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Swings Quotes , People Quotes

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , People Quotes , Leader Quotes

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , People Quotes

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , People Quotes

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , People Quotes , Wiping Out Quotes

I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Compassion Quotes , People Quotes

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , People Quotes

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Successful Quotes , People Quotes

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ada Leverson Quotes , Talking Quotes , People Quotes

Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past - none of these things have been helpful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Past Quotes , People Quotes