Barbara Lillian Combes Quotes & Sayings

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation. — Jim Yong Kim

I'm really happy. I just don't choose to show it. — Karl Pilkington

If you believe, as I do believe, in reincarnation, they say that every time you come back, it's because you have to finish something. I've a funny feeling that my thing in this life is to have one relationship after another. — Marie Helvin

In baseball, you don't know nothing. — Yogi Berra

Even in his sleep he couldn't escape. — Madeleine Roux

If there is no continuity what is there? There is nothing. One is afraid to be nothing. Nothing means not a thing - nothing put together by thought, nothing put together by memory, remembrances, nothing that you can put into words and then measure. There is most certainly, definitely, an area where the past doesn't cast a shadow, where time, the past or the future or the present, has no meaning. We have always tried to measure with words something that we don't know. What we do not know we try to understand and give it words and make it into a continuous noise. And so we clog our brain which is already clogged with past vents, experiences, knowledge. We think knowledge is psychologically of great importance, but it is not. You can't ascend through knowledge; there must be an end to knowledge for the new to be. New is a word for something which has never been before. And that area cannot be understood or grasped by words or symbols: it is there beyond all remembrances. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe. — Vince Cable

both the immigrants from the tribe and bloodline and the activists of prosperity share a common delusion: they believe that it is possible to make this transition without paying the price of choosing between values. One side wants change in their circumstances without letting go of tradition; the other, overcome with guilt and pity, wants to help newcomers with the material change but cannot bring themselves to demand that they excise traditional, outdated values from their outlook. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. — Christopher Morley

Did the memory erasure device work, Uncle?"
"The what?"
"The memory erasure device. You were testing it when I last saw you."
"Don't know what you're talking about, dear girl. — Jasper Fforde

She
is the imitation of what I want.
Unfortunately, the original is not
available. — Ella Frank

The colonel looks eager, but Cal could not seem more reluctant. He keeps still, knowing that any twitch might betray his true feelings. The lack of movement is just as damning. "I'll see what I can come up with," he finally forces out. — Victoria Aveyard

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist. — Sylvia Plath

I don't spill my drinks on just any man, you know." She touched his cheek. "only dashing shark lovers with pantydropping accents. — Ophelia London