Nyanaponika Thera Quotes

Painful feeling is suffering in itself; pleasant feeling brings suffering through its transiency and its unsatisfying and unsatisfactory nature.

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• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Sleep
  • Bed
  • Meat

• You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Party
  • Trump

• I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Bad
  • Me
  • First

• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Mom

• Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Remember
  • Green
  • Big

• I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Reality
  • Really
  • Pragmatic

• Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

  

  Vanna Bonta

• Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Up

• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Home
  • Husband

• Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

  

  Leo Burnett
  • Fun

• Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising.

  

  Linford Christie
  • Lost
  • Coaching

• The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.

  

  Martin Winterkorn

• Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Together

• My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Church
  • Practice
  • Prayer

• I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • World
  • True

• This is America, not a banana republic.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • America
  • Republic
  • Banana

• I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

  

  Jason Dohring
  • People
  • Long
  • Proud

• The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Business
  • Nature

• Painful feeling is suffering in itself; pleasant feeling brings suffering through its transiency and its unsatisfying and unsatisfactory nature.

  

  Nyanaponika Thera
  • Nature
  • Feeling
  • Suffering