Wumen Huikai Quotes

If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

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• I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Beginning
  • Failure
  • End

• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Enemy
  • Difference

• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Winners
  • Losers
  • Employer

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • American
  • Dream

• My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Speak

• I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Try
  • Tolerance

• When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Real
  • You

• The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Communication
  • More
  • Less

• Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Soul
  • Creative
  • Trees

• I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Parents
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Think
  • Strong

• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Action

• To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • True

• Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Past
  • Growth
  • Revolution

• The swarming, grunting masses of jackals...

  

  Conrad Black

• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

  

  James Fenton
  • War
  • Death
  • Feeling

• The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

  

  George Gilder
  • Men
  • Simple
  • Growth

• If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

  

  Wumen Huikai
  • Simple
  • Things
  • Simplicity