Ascetics In The World Quotes & Sayings

The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?! — Alice Liddell

As a group, we've been banned from two water parks, one bar, and a dog-grooming salon. — J.A. Rock

We must never forget that BYU is not just another "good" university. It was established by the Lord's servants and continues to be blessed with the direction and support of prophets, seers, and revelators. While we may not understand all of the details, we do know that Brigham Young University occupies a key place in the Lord's plans for the completion of His work in these last days. — Cecil O. Samuelson

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life. — Karen Kain

What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret. — Michel Foucault

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while ... you don't do things right once in a while ... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. — Vince Lombardi

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world" - he made a vague circular gesture towards the battalions of meditating Asians behind him - "were hatching and proclaiming their ideas? Anyone who now tries to follow these ideas in order to find the road back to what they were talking about, is faced with obstacles that would have driven an entire tribe of oriental ascetics into the ravine. The world from which they felt it so necessary to retreat would have seemed idyllic to us. We live in a vision of hell, and we have actually got used to it." He looked at his statues and continued, "We have become different people. We still look the same, but we have nothing in common with them any more. We are differently programmed. Anyone who now wants to become like them must acquire a big dose of madness first; otherwise he will no longer be able to bear the life of our world. We are not designed for their kind of life. — Cees Nooteboom

Soon the Laughing Man has amassed the largest personal fortune in the world. Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery- humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs. — J.D. Salinger

It turned out to be easy to know where he was, even if he didn't know where he was going. — Shukyou

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices. — Herbie Hancock

Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying. — Dorothy Parker

Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats. — Steven Magee

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha. He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time. — Hermann Hesse

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that. — Ed Bradley

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture. — Nolan Bushnell

We commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and Paul, the supreme Leaders of the pre-eminent company of the Apostles? They are the fathers and guides of all Christians: Apostles, martyrs, holy ascetics, priests, hierarchs, pastors and teachers. As chief shepherds and master builders of our common godliness and virtue, they tend and teach us all, like lights in the world, holding forth the word of life. — Gregory Palamas

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner! — Red Buttons