Arca Level Ii Quotes & Sayings

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment. — Friedrich Schiller

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving. — Gautama Buddha

This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out. — Jodi Picoult

In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter's dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while working at the office, she hosted a birthday party for one of her Newfoundlands and the party was attended by dogs of other coworkers. It was a hectic few hours, but I believe the guests enjoyed themselves. — Tom Monaghan

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend. — L.M. Montgomery

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner. — Hosea Ballou

Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love. — Dennis Lehane

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves
the more severity we show them, the better they obey us. — Norm MacDonald

Don't let the mind rule the heart. — Steven Redhead

A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse aspects of thought not previously done, in a powerful and consistent way, despite surrounding ignorance and opposition. This criterion we think would include all prophets and their true followers among the Muslim scholars. He is both a great and original thinker who brings new meanings and interpretations to old ideas, thereby providing both continuity and originality to the important intellectual and cultural problems of his time and through it, of mankind. Thus the brilliant interpretations of scholars and sages like al-Ghazali and Mulla Sadra then, and Iqbal and al-Attas now, deserve to be recognized and acknowledged as manifesting certain qualities of greatness and originality. — Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading. — Raymond Chandler

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical. — Thomas B. Macaulay