Appenscribe Quotes & Sayings

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing. — George Dana Boardman Pepper

Not doing attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) while experiencing the unfolding of karma is religion. — Dada Bhagwan

Desperation, despair, fear, powerlessness - these reactions are functions of our perceptions. You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings. — Ryan Holiday

The illusory reality tends to become whatever you are prepared to accept. — Steven Redhead

Initially, the positive emotions derived from cultivating our higher natures may be weak, but we can enhance them through constant familiarity, making our experiences of happiness and inner contentment far more powerful than a life abandoned to purely impulsive emotions. — Dalai Lama XIV

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest. — Jairam Ramesh

If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better. — Anthony Liccione

I swapped my heart for a bargaining chip a long time ago. And here I am turning it over and over again in my hand, not sure what to trade it in for. — Shirley Marr

He could see how this liberating condition could grow progressive. How in the face of an end game there was virtually no limit to what did not matter. Returned — Lionel Shriver

Before I go,I'd like to tell you something." Her voice was cool over flowing vowels. "It isn't often one finds one's first impression was so killingly accurate.The first night I met you,I thought you were a rude, arrogant man with no redeeming qualities." The wind blew her hair across her eyes and with a toss of her head she sent it flying back so that she could keep her icy gaze on his. "It's very gratifying to learn just how right I was ... and to be able to dislike you so intensely." Chin high, Gennie turned and walked to her car. — Nora Roberts

Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything. — Cassandra Clare

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy. — Scott Adams

There is no alternative universe where Ralph Sampson is a beloved symbol of excellence. There's no Philip K. Dick novel where he averages a career double-double and gets four rings. He could never be that guy. He was needed elsewhere, for other reasons. He was needed to remind people that their own self-imposed mediocrity is better than choking on transcendence. — Chuck Klosterman

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs. — Bjork

Fear of the unknown is a horror writer's best friend! — G.A. Minton