Billabong Shorts Quotes & Sayings

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in. — Yukimi Nagano

I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard. — Charlie Munger

My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty. — Angeles Mastretta

And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which He has placed me. — Diana Gabaldon

Darren Levine has my unqualified support and gratitude for his
contributions to Krav Maga. — Imi Lichtenfeld

I fled, or at least, backed awkwardly away from journalism because I wanted the freedom to make things up. I did not want to be nailed to the truth; or to be more accurate, I wanted to be able to tell the truth without ever needing to worry about the facts. And — Neil Gaiman

When Islam swept out of the Arabian Peninsula, it became an invasive species to both the pagan and Christian areas it conquered. With it came the sexual practices of a very patriarchal, polygamist culture. While the religions it displaced were not particularly sex positive, Islamic sexual practices, on the whole, were uniformly sex negative. — Darrel Ray

Twenty years ago at a conference I attended of theologians and professors of religion, an Indian Christian friend told the assembly, "We are going to hear about the beauties of several traditions, but that does not mean that we are going to make a fruit salad." When it came my turn to speak, I said, "Fruit salad can be delicious! I have shared the Eucharist with Father Daniel Berrigan, and our worship became possible because of the sufferings we Vietnamese and Americans shared over many years." Some of the Buddhists present were shocked to hear I had participated in the Eucharist, and many Christians seemed truly horrified. To me, religious life is life. I do not see any reason to spend one's whole life tasting just one kind of fruit. We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong — Melody Carlson

Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of events. — Piyush Shrivastava

It's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course. — J.K. Rowling