Coleman Barks Quotes

If you think there's an important difference between being a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Muslim or a Buddhist, then you're making a division between your heart, what you love with, and the way you act in the world.

Coleman Barks

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• I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Reading
  • Text

• You never grow out of high school sadly.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • School
  • High
  • Grow

• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Roma come before everything else.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Everything
  • Come
  • Before

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • School
  • Man

• I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • American
  • Top
  • Hat

• I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Truth
  • Today
  • Present

• Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

  

  Colin Powell
  • People

• In real life, I don't love working out, but I've been driven to it.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Life
  • Real

• In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've been surviving. I don't really make money through record sales. I used to be really picky: 'No, I don't want it to be the song of a commercial,' but nowadays it's what you need to do to get the song out as much as you can.

  

  Priscilla Ahn
  • Music
  • Money
  • Song

• I believe that I have such a vanilla life.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Life
  • Believe

• It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.

  

  David Crystal
  • Long
  • Community

• Abortion is child mortality.

  

  Chris Smith

• I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

  

  Dorothy Kilgallen
  • Catholic

• I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.

  

  Aman Mojadidi
  • Up
  • Work
  • Money

• We did not seek ideological confrontation.

  

  John Hume

• I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Time
  • Children
  • Mother

• I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the problems I'd had all my life would leave me.' But, of course, not a bit of it left me because Asperger's is not something you just get over or grow out of.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Life
  • Work
  • Success

• Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic,bold moves which by definition, cannot be planned.

  

  F. Ross Johnson
  • Success
  • Moving
  • Bold

• If you think there's an important difference between being a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Muslim or a Buddhist, then you're making a division between your heart, what you love with, and the way you act in the world.

  

  Coleman Barks
  • Christian
  • Difference
  • Buddhist