Gary Snyder Quotes
The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.Gary Snyder
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
Wayne Dyer -
My family never owned a home. We leased.
Aaron Paul -
But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
Malcolm Boyd -
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
Aaron Eckhart -
Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.
Hailee Steinfeld -
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
Natsuo Kirino -
People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
Carine Roitfeld -
I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
Samantha Power -
For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
Karl Pilkington -
It was many and many a year ago,In a District styled E. C.,That a monster dwelt whom I came to knowBy the name of Cannibal Flea,And the brute was possessed with no other thoughtThan to live - and to live on me.
Flea Jane's Addiction
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Signs are not empirical objects. Empirical objects become signs (or they are looked at as signs) only from the point of view of a philosophical decision.
Umberto Eco -
The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.
Le Corbusier -
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.
Aldous Huxley -
I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death match between Ray Charles and Jessica Simpson.
John Mayer -
A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
Eileen Myles -
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
Janet Erskine Stuart
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Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.
Francis Maude -
We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
C. S. Lewis -
Hans Breitmann gife a barty-Where ish dat barty now?
Charles Godfrey Leland -
The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet,A chafing savage, down the decent street;And passion rends my vitals as I pass,Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass.
Claude McKay -
The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.
Gary Snyder