Baqiq Quotes & Sayings

When a film's heroine innocently coughs, you know that two scenes later, at most, she'll be in an oxygen tent; when a man bumps into a woman at the train station, you know that man will become the woman's lover and/or murderer. In everyday life, where we cough often and are always bumping into people, our daily actions rarely reverberate so lucidly. Once we love or hate someone, we can think back and remember that first casual encounter. But what of all the chance meetings that nothing ever comes of? While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark. — Lucy Grealy

To do good, to love justice, to grant that all men had an equal right to a pleasant life, these things Kung Chen believed in, and believing, he did all he could to perform his belief. — Pearl S. Buck

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted. — Liza Cody

There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience. — Vint Cerf

Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance. — George F. Will

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them. — Merrit Malloy

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness. — Chogyam Trungpa

I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity. — John Wesley