Ajahn Chah Quotes

Time is our present breath.

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• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Right
  • Half

• The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • You
  • Lie

• I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Husband

• I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Time
  • Spring
  • Beach

• By the time we've made it, we've had it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Made
  • By The Time

• With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Time
  • Work
  • High

• I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Time
  • Political
  • Sometimes

• The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

  

  Eddy Grant
  • Time
  • Process
  • Take

• What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Time
  • Band
  • Air

• I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Time
  • Movie
  • You

• Pleasant to bring back the divisions of a parish; Also pleasant to us the time of paradise. Pleasant, the moon, a luminary in the heavens; Also pleasant where there is a good rememberer.

  

  Taliesin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Moon

• I had a lot of changes in my life since I turned 40. In fact, even since I turned 50. I became a vegetarian. I have never felt better in my life. I have more energy, I'm so much more alert. I lost 20 pounds, that's right! I really really recommend going vegetarian whatever time in your life. Peace begins on your plate. I'm Carol Leifer and I'm a vegan.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Energy

• Last time I was sober, man I felt badWorst hangover that I ever had.It took six hamburgers and scotch all nightNicotine for breakfast just to put me right.’Cause if you wanna run cool,If you wanna run cool,If you wanna run cool, you got to runOn heavy, heavy fuel.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Time
  • Cool
  • Breakfast

• The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• A lot of coaches are very intense, which is good once you are working, but you don't want that all the time.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Time
  • Good

• If the response you finally receive from me is 'thanks but no thanks', then please accept at face value that I would really not be the right investor for you. You've got to trust me on this, and in this case take 'no' for an answer.

  

  David S. Rose
  • Value
  • Trust
  • Thanks

• I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Done

• One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.

  

  Anthony Rizzo
  • Good
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a pop star you're getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn't rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you're in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn't it?

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • World
  • Game
  • Star

• Time is our present breath.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Time
  • Breath