World Quotes - Page 397

Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply have to acknowledge or recognize what is.

Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional

Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

The New York Times said, "There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement."

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

Marijuana grows everywhere in the world. And it really is currency, if you think about it.

A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

If you're not satisfied with the way the world is, or if you think the world can be better, you have to figure out a way to know yourself and better yourself. Then you have the assurance that something in the world has improved.

No other method in this world is able to cure/rectify the demons that exist within human beings in this world - only nature and the animal kingdom, but you also have to bring through your participation and diligent application in facing the demons within.

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.

American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.