I like Muhammad a lot, because he’s like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it’s almost beyond our reach. Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. – Deepak Chopra
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. – Muriel Rukeyser
There’s such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings. – Edmund Phelps
What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it. – Morley Safer
All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be. – John Gregory Dunne
United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being. – Matt Busby
An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will. – Nita Ambani
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding
Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It’s imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely. – Kevin O’Leary
I’m beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I’m even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K. – John Corey Whaley
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief. – Kay Redfield Jamison
Wormholes don’t exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one. – Jonathan Nolan
The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. – Lester Bangs
We are now beyond nature’s normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we’re forty percent outside that zone. – James Balog
Of course I’d like to get beyond the concrete. But it’s really difficult. Very difficult. – Krzysztof Kieslowski
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck. – John Jakes
Congress’s definition of torture in those laws – the infliction of severe mental or physical pain – leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation. – John Yoo
And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group. – Lawrence Eagleburger
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity. – Jack Schwartz
I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span. – LL Cool J
If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours. – Joe Miller
This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it. – Jim Nussle
So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services. – Kevin Rollins
