Absorptionslinien Quotes & Sayings

When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God. — Sully Tarnish

The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference. — Herbert Newton Casson

Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives. — Colin S. Smith

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer. — Liza Minnelli

Breathe, breathe in the air,
Don't be afraid to care ... — Pink Floyd

Several performers have told me that they do the following brief lovingkindness meditation if they have stage fright: Standing in front of an audience, before they start acting, playing music, or reciting a poem, they send out wishes for the well-being of everyone in the room. 'When I do that,' one singer told me, 'I no longer have a sense of the audience as a group of hostile people out there waiting to judge me. I feel, okay, here we all are together. — Sharon Salzberg

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place. — Andrew Carnegie

What are you doing here?
Just trying to find my story. — Brandi Laplante

How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with others like them, are now gnashing their teeth in the prison of the infernal Babylon, under the cruet tyranny of Pluto? — Honorius Augustodunensis

[John] von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility! — Richard P. Feynman