Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

Chogyam Trungpa

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• You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • You
  • Know
  • Mark

• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Commitment

• I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Think
  • Leader
  • Impact

• I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • World
  • Politics
  • Start

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
  • Common Sense

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Real
  • American
  • Think

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • God
  • Culture

• I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Money
  • Never
  • Save

• I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Teach

• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Football
  • Nothing
  • Pop

• I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Up
  • Strong
  • End

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Cool
  • Point
  • Big

• What we're doing is talking and that is always better than not talking.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Conversation

• I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.

  

  Banksy
  • Thinking
  • Graffiti
  • Should Have

• The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects. I think about a song like Free's 'All Right Now,' which I'm often asked about. It's that sort of song.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Song
  • Free

• Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

  

  Madame Roland
  • Selfish
  • Love Is
  • Gallant

• Speaking from Russia, Attorney General John Ashcroft reveals that an American named Jose Padilla is under arrest, accused of plotting a radiation bomb attack in this country. In fact, Padilla had, by this time, already been detained for more than one month. Number three. February 5, 2003. Secretary of State Powell tells the United Nations Security Council of Iraq's concealment of weapons, including 18 mobile biological weapons laboratories, justifying a U.N. or U.S. first strike. Many in the U.N. are doubtful. Months later, much of the information proves untrue. February 7, 2003. Two days later, as anti-war demonstrations continue to take place around the globe.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Time
  • Country
  • American

• Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Reality
  • Eyes
  • Situation