Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.

Taisen Deshimaru

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• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Control
  • Happiness
  • Path

• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Knowledge
  • Stress
  • Sympathy

• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Late

• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Happiness

• So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Government

• It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Ideas
  • Feel
  • Weird

• Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Children
  • Young

• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Inspire

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Dirty

• There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Quality
  • Nothing
  • Replace

• What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Day
  • Musicians

• I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Popular
  • Master
  • Cringe

• The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Science
  • Church
  • Pretend

• I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Job
  • Friends
  • London

• Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Art
  • Science
  • Wonder

• Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Roles
  • Flirty
  • Adulterous

• Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Humility
  • Where

• Where is my dwelling place? Where I can never stand. Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend? It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be? I must, transcending God, into the desert flee

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Desert

• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • God
  • Long
  • Country

• I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Body

• I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military strength. And they do rattle the saber a bit. It wants to be a player.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • People
  • Believe
  • Player

• The show [ Too Much Tuna] changed a lot, actually, which is risky when you get positive critical feedback.

  

  Alex Timbers
  • Positive
  • Show
  • Feedback

• Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Desert
  • Grit