Bristollib Quotes & Sayings

In short, God will either give us what we ask or give us what we would have asked if we knew everything he knew. — Timothy Keller

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

La di da di, we likes to party
We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody. — Slick Rick

I want to see that 'Anita' documentary. I want to see 'Lovelace'; I want to see 'After Midnight,' because I saw the other two and I loved them. I thought the last one was great. — George Tillman Jr.

The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us. — Shunryu Suzuki

My
gad," one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; "if
you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all? — William Faulkner

The 'I' [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this 'I' uses a language that is alien to her; this 'I' [Je] experiences what is alien to her since this 'I' [Je] cannot be un ecrivain. J/e poses the ideological and historical question of feminine subjects. — Monique Wittig

When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions. — Mata Amritanandamayi

In one Native American folk tale, a grandfather explains to his grandson that he has two wolves inside him. One wolf fills him with hope and reminds him how wonderful his life is, and the other fills him with doubt and convinces him that nothing is worth the effort. The grandson asks, concerned for his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The grandfather replies, "Whichever one I feed. — Anonymous