Dalai Lama Quotes
Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.
Dalai Lama
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
Youssef Ziedan
Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
Octavia E. Butler
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
Ted Danson
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Og Mandino
Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
Raghuram Rajan
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
Umberto Eco
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
Jack Vance
I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
Naveen Andrews
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A. R. Ammons
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
Barry Commoner
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
Barton Gellman