B9 Quotes & Sayings

God gives everybody gifts, but he doesn't give anybody all the gifts. — Mike Glenn

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil. — Sir Fulke Greville

It's only when we dare to experience the full anxiety of knowing that life doesn't go on forever that we can experience transcendence and get in touch with the infinite. To use an analogy from gestalt psychology, Non-Being is the necessary ground for the figure of Being to make itself known to us. It's only when we're willing to let go of all of our illusions and admit that we are lost and helpless and terrified that we will be free of ourselves and our false securities and ready for what Kierkegaard calls "the leap of faith."
p. 43 — Thomas Cathcart

I want to be who I am now. I rock my gray hair because it is a blessing. I colored mine for many years, but I've gotten compliments from so many men and women about being brave enough to sport the gray. I even wear it on the cover of my record. I am comfortable in my skin and I want listeners to feel that as well. — Regina Belle

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me. — Karl Lagerfeld

Change plus innovation equals progress! — Israelmore Ayivor

When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull.
Your life is no longer your own. — Howard Fast

Suppose a man threw into the sea a yoke with one hole in it, and the east wind carried it to the west, and the west wind carried it to the east, and the north wind carried it to the south, and the south wind carried it to the north. Suppose there were a blind turtle that came up once at the end of each century. What do you think, bhikkhus? Would that blind turtle put his neck into that yoke with one hole in it?"
"He might, venerable sir, sometime or other at the end of a long period."
"Bhikkhus, the blind turtle would sooner put his neck into that yoke with a single hole in it than a fool, once gone to perdition, would take to regain the human state, I say. Why is that? Because there is no practising of the Dhamma there, no practising of what is righteous, no doing of what is wholesome, no performance of merit. There mutual devouring prevails, and the slaughter of the weak. — Gautama Buddha

You've been making a regular habit of flinging yourself in front of bullets," she remarked amiably. "It's really not a good custom. Curb this tendency to self-immolation. — Kerry Greenwood

Both busy streets and country roads are empty without good friends... — Xue Tao

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil. — Patton Oswalt

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die? — Robert Jordan

It reminded him of the truth - who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him. — Kayla Krantz

Let the gods speak softly of us — Ezra Pound

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect. — Evangeline Lilly

You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. — Mitch Albom

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr. — Anonymous

if you may edit, edit yourself — George Spirakis

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different - is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being. — Tom Spanbauer

I 'm grateful for the success that( husband) Bill and I have had, we both come from hard-working families. We both have worked very hard. — Hillary Clinton

When a sin comes back (its memory) you absolutely must bury it. How to bury the memory of a sin that comes from a distant past? I shut it up in a clay pot. Then I dug right into the cold hard ground, deep down. Without of course telling anyone what I had in the pot,then I stuck this pot the size of a little quart saucepan into the ground and I covered the hole in the ground with ice for a long time, and that despite the presence of people who had no inkling what I was ridding myself of in this little improvised coffin. — Helene Cixous

Of course I get hurt. — Jackie Chan