Anthony de Mello Quotes
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.Anthony de Mello
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar Gracian -
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Salman Rushdie -
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami -
I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
Samantha Isler -
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
K. Eric Drexler -
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
Abu Bakr -
Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
Patrick Carman -
There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
A.J. Styles -
I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
Narendra Modi -
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
Manuel Puig -
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
Harold Pinter -
I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
Jack Palance -
You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
Yehuda Berg -
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
Walter Jon Williams -
There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.
Dan Hicks
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
C. Everett Koop -
I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
Zooey Deschanel -
To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.
Edward Carpenter -
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
Anthony de Mello