24768 State Quotes & Sayings

Genius after all ain't anything more then elegant common sense. — Josh Billings

Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand. — George Steiner

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. — Natalie Clifford Barney

A trance healer in Bali, an eagle woman, asked me, 'What is freedom, madam?' She had a chained eagle, her ally in healing, and it broke my heart, those huge, folded wings. So I asked her why the eagle couldn't fly free, why it was chained. And then her eagle eyes dug into mine, and she asked, 'What is freedom, madam? — Alma Luz Villanueva

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster. — Jackie Earle Haley

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. — Donald Rumsfeld

Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you? — Edith Wharton

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. — James K. Polk

To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble
I know something is wrong. — Brian Blade

No. I'm not broken easily. I will never break. — Marie Lu

Life is what you make it and faith is what brings it to reality. -CF — Carline Francois

Feedback doesn't tell you about yourself. It tells you about the person giving the feedback. In other words, if someone says your work is gorgeous, that just tells you about *their* taste. If you put out a new product and it doesn't sell at all, that tells you something about what your audience does and doesn't want. When we look at praise and criticism as information about the people giving it, we tend to get really curious about the feedback, rather than dejected or defensive. — Tara Mohr

"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic, then with the Witness or primordial Self, then with each previous stage taken up, enfolded, included, and embraced in the radiance of One Taste. And that means we do not "get rid" of the small ego, but rahter, we inhabit it fully, live it with verve, use it as the necessary vehicle through which higher truths are communicated. Soul and Spirit include body, emotions, and mind; they do not erase them. — Ken Wilber

When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else. — Behdad Sami