Aryananda Quotes & Sayings

The women say that they could not eat hare veal or fowl, they say that they could not eat animals, but man, yes, they may. He says to them throwing his head back with pride, poor wretches of women, if you eat him who will go to work in the fields, who will produce food consumer goods, who will make the aeroplanes, who will pilot them, who will provide the spermatozoa, who will write the books, who in fact will govern? Then the women laugh, baring their teeth to the fullest extent. — Monique Wittig

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. — Pierre Corneille

In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have in some way made their peace with the world and their destiny within it, do not need to expend effort censoring or otherwise controlling their thoughts. — Barbara Ehrenreich

What draws me to roles, I think, are moments - moments that define character, where so much more of the story is told in just a moment - a look, a line, a short scene, but something that speaks a volume, something that speaks to me. — Nathan Fillion

A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one creature and another. To be good for nothing is just that. If a virtue has been thought a virtue long enough, it must be assumed to have practical justification - though the very longevity that proves its practicality may obscure it. That seems to be what happened with the idea of fidelity ...
Our age could be characterized as a manifold experiment in faithlessness, and if it has as yet produced no effective understanding of the practicalities of faith, it has certainly produced massive evidence of the damage and disorder of its absence.
(pg.115-116, "The Body and the Earth") — Wendell Berry

Adversity is another way to measure
the greatness of individuals. I never had
a crisis that didn't make me stronger. — Lou Holtz

If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me. — Tommy James

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. — Lucille Ball

It takes a special kind of person to fight back. — Terry Pratchett

There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. — Nikola Tesla

I had a choice: Follow my heart or don't break his. I think in the end I broke a bit of both our hearts. — Sophie Kinsella

I always loved as a kid reading 'Spider-Man,' and the 'Fantastic Four' would show up ... it was all about that larger universe. — Peyton Reed

What cannot be cured must be endured. — Robert Burton

Becoming hard at heart isn't an intersection in your brain where you have a choice to turn left or right. It's coming to a dead end, and you just keep going, over the cliff, unable to stop the inevitable, because the truth is you just don't want to. — Penelope Douglas