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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• Difference
• Buddhist
• Jew
• Muslim
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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've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Great
  • Music

• My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Movie
  • Scary
  • Halloween

• You know you're a bigot when you can't take out the word 'Muslim' from a sentence you stated and replace it with 'Jew' and still have it be socially acceptable.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Jew
  • Muslim
  • Acceptable

• If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • True
  • Knowledge

• In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Honor

• 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