523 Covena Quotes & Sayings

One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase. — Gautama Buddha

Your life is not defined by the one place where you work. — Roland Martin

Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes. — Deborah Brodie

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different. — Kate Millett

I love doing action. — Ashley Scott

More delicious aromas rose. He sprinkled in a — John Flanagan

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. — Umberto Eco

You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me. — Juanes