A7info Quotes & Sayings

He searched the ground floor and found only shadow and stillness, which should've reassured him but didn't. It was the wrong kind of stillness, the shocked stillness that follows the bang of a cherry bomb. His eardrums throbbed from the pressure of all that quiet, a dreadful silence. — Joe Hill

We could all take heart. These are the wise ones who sit in front of us, to whom we prostrate when we do prostrations. We can prostrate to them as an example of our own wisdom mind of enlightened beings, but perhaps it's also good to prostrate to them as confused, mixed-up people with a lot of neurosis, just like ourselves. They are good examples of people who never gave up on themselves and were not afraid to be themselves, who therefore found their own genuine quality and their own true nature. The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate. — Pema Chodron

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity. — Edward Gibbon

When I heard that she was dead, I really suffered very little. — Geoffrey Household

When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making. — Bob Anderson

Future became Present, Present became Past. A truth so banal, so obvious and accepted that he had somehow managed to ignore it before. — Iain Banks

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us. — Gene Robinson

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman. — Samuel Johnson