Ajahn Chah Quotes

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

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• I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • High
  • Girl

• There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

  

  Mark Twain
  • American

• When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Work
  • Done
  • Fun

• People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Knows
  • Clothes

• The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Plan
  • Buying
  • Electronic textbook

• You are the sunshine of my life That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Why

• And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Want

• People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Stage

• The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Great
  • Men
  • Children

• Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.

  

  D. V. Ager
  • Live
  • May
  • Alone

• There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Goal
  • Finish

• If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • America
  • Hate

• I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Together
  • Moments
  • Alive

• Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

  

  Rumi
  • Learn
  • Knows
  • Moon

• Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Treated
  • Attracted
  • Human capital

• A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Knows
  • Madmen