Bodhidharma Quotes

To have a body is to suffer.

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• The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • Financial
  • Integrity

• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Values

• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • World
  • Energy
  • Present

• The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Population
  • Less
  • Then

• I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Me
  • Day
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• I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Trying
  • Next
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• What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Right

• I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Book
  • Science
  • Technology

• Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Work
  • Problems
  • Through

• Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Doing
  • Look
  • Now

• As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Fantasy
  • Africa
  • Adolescent

• The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Said
  • Differences

• The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • True
  • Brain
  • Fact

• In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for generations.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • God
  • Country
  • Culture

• The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Age
  • Past

• I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • People

• Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Frozen

• It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Power
  • Desire

• I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

  

  James MacArthur
  • Home
  • Picture

• What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • People
  • Country
  • Party

• You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.

  

  Jason T. Smith
  • Realist

• I'm a person that, once I start something, I can't just quit it.

  

  Oksana Masters

• In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Forget

• To have a body is to suffer.

  

  Bodhidharma