Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.
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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.
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Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
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The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.
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Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
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If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.
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Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.
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All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.
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It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.