Bassui Tokusho Quotes

Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.

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• I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Free

• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Up
  • Age
  • Moment

• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Long
  • War
  • Mistake

• Some things have to be believed to be seen.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Things
  • Seen
  • Some

• My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Prayer
  • Sand

• I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Vary

• Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Family
  • May

• You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• From Lee, a dramatist: Ah! the poet hath no true hope, who doth not place it in the many, and in the feeling of the common multitude.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • True
  • Hope
  • Feeling

• Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Fear
  • Hurt
  • Desert

• You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Bad

• Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole

• Just making a good movie is hard to do.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Good
  • Movie

• If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Question
  • Simple

• I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a cult movie, more of a black comedy with some horror elements in it. It kind of went over the top.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Comedy

• I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Growing

• That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it's all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort - but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that's still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do - that's a huge piece to moving your life forward.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • World

• One of the things I love about 'Idol' besides the drama, the backstories, and the crazy arrangements on popular songs is the auditions, when everyone is full of hope and nerves.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Hope
  • Crazy
  • Drama

• He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Lord

• Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.

  

  Bassui Tokusho
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Recipe