FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak ... (Sam Harris)

The third kind of loneliness is avoiding unnecesssary activities. When we're lonely in a "hot" way, we look for something to save us; we look for a way out. We ... (Pema Chodron)

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket ... (Eric Burns)

My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder ... (Erma Bombeck)

As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision ... I raise these questions out of deep caring and ... (Ronald Goldman)

God always wants what's best for us, just as you want what's best for someone you really love. You put them before you, and God does that too. God puts ... (Francis George)

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for ... (Brian Skerry)

Arguing is a waste of time, because our attitudes need a quantum leap, not our knowledge. Arguing is a sport at best and a bad attitude at worst. ... (Stefan Emunds)

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And ... (Philip Zaleski)

I hated Sundays as a kid. From the moment I woke up, I could feel Monday looming, could feel another school week all piled up and ready to smother me. ... (Hugh Howey)

Frozen by fear. Not able to move. Your mind screaming ... (James Dashner)

Remember that, Iz. Be a kid of honesty. Wave it like a banner for all to see. Also, while I'm thinking about it - be a kid who loves surprises. ... (David Arnold)

It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of ... (Anne Waldman)

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon that is, saying things that are ... (Thomas Sowell)

Getting seasick?" the inspector asked him at one point. "No. Just sick of myself." "Why?" "Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit I am to go ... (Andrea Camilleri)

The spiritual leader will not procrastinate when faced with a decision, nor vacillate after making it. A sincere but faulty decision is better than weak-willed "trial balloons" or indecisive overtures. ... (J. Oswald Sanders)

The day came when my travels took me to Pyrrha. As soon as I set foot there, everything I had imagined was forgotten; Pyrrha had become what is Pyrrha; and ... (Italo Calvino)

That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart. ... (Faraaz Kazi)

He didn't need to get up and look in the ornate, gilt-edged mirror over the massive fireplace to know that calamitous was the accurate word for his face. His right ... (Katy Regnery)

I don't agree with superstitious routines, but there are a couple of things I'll always do before performing. I'll get together with the band and chill out, and then, just ... (James Blunt)

You study Yoga in India, Liss?" he asks. "Yes, Ketut." "You can do Yoga," he says, "but Yoga too hard." Here, he contorts himself in a cramped lotus position and ... (Elizabeth Gilbert)

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening ... (Phil Knight)

The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why ... (Chellie Pingree)

I know I could've been on the other side of the line too. I refuse to accept injustice and inequality because I know it can be against any one of ... (Sharad Vivek Sagar)

When it came to producing a state of focus, quiet contentment, and inner peace, Zen meditation ran a very distant second to caffeine. ... (Joe Hill)

I went to the surplus store on Santa Monica and Vine (in Los Angeles) and went and got me a Navy outfit, put the black tape under my eyes. I ... (Tyrese Gibson)

Let us be quite clear that the ideal is a paradox. Most of us, having grown up among the ruins of the chivalrous tradition, were taught in our youth that ... (C.S. Lewis)

Prayer is the secret weapon that restores your trust in God. ... (Elizabeth George)

Boredom is the secret to releasing pleasure. Once something becomes so tedious that its purpose becomes secondary to its nature, then the real work can start. ... (Ian Bogost)

You make me thank god for every mistake I ever made, Because each one led me down the path that brought me to you. ... (Pablo Neruda)