Actual Buddha Quotes

#1. I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything else that was decidedly less than okay.

Lionel Shriver

#2. It is a life's task to find the ways you want to play an endless game of uncontrol- lable beauty

David Shapiro

#3. I get very nervous about not being around the office.

Arash Ferdowsi

#4. Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.

Gautama Buddha

#5. This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

Eddie Vedder

#6. As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

Baron De Montesquieu

#7. Disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

Julia McNair Wright

#8. I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.

Clive Sinclair

#9. Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#11. The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.

Mary McCarthy

#12. Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

Robert Breault

#13. I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

Rachel McAdams

#14. You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?

Simon R. Green

#15. The peaks sat in judgement over the town, reminding us humans just how insignificant and temporary we were.

Joss Stirling

#16. The best part of breaking up ... is when you're making up.

Phil Spector