Christmas Humphreys Quotes

When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

Christmas Humphreys

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• Past
• Building
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• Ruins

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• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • School
  • System
  • U.K.

• The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Unique
  • Place
  • Special

• What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Depend

• I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Said
  • Yellow
  • Duck

• You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
  • Art
  • Think

• I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

  

  Jackson Katz
  • School
  • Problem
  • Start

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • End

• You can never overlook a guy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • You
  • Never

• He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.

  

  Jack Vance

• What a beautiful step! I shall never be able to do it.

  

  Margot Fonteyn
  • Beautiful

• Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Today

• One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Mind

• I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.

  

  Jared Polis
  • People

• So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Long
  • May
  • History

• Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

  

  Ransom Riggs
  • Yourself
  • Climbing

• Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Past
  • Simple

• Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.

  

  Ali Akbar Khan
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• Unfortunately, I don't train enough on an everyday basis to be a black belt, but if I put my mind to it I think I could definitely move very quickly in that world.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • World
  • Mind
  • Think

• When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

  

  Christmas Humphreys
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Building