Gautama Buddha Quotes
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.
Gautama Buddha
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
Bai Ling
I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.
Owain Yeoman
Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
T. S. Eliot
To act is to rest.
Fernando Pessoa
The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.
Orson Scott Card
...the Democrats know that no matter how many GATTs, NAFTAs, empty OSHAs, and other betrayals...they heap on those labor leaders, they can be had because, once again, the Republicans are deemed worse.
Ralph Nader
'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
Isaac Asimov
In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal level.It was called 'spousal impoverishment' and it meant that for one person [to go into] a nursing home, the family [ ], could go near bankruptcy, and then they'd end up with a lien on the family farm or the home. And so I wanted to change that.
Barbara Mikulski
We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.
Brian Tracy
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.
Muriel Spark
Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.
Elizabeth Bear
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.
Gautama Buddha