Buddhist Sangha Quotes & Sayings

A strange fact of life is that usually people who are counted out somehow transform into the action figures doing the toughest of times that people can count on. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

This kid, this little fucking kid who didn't know him at all, had just given him his first gift, nothing expected in return, no favors, no stipulations, no nothing. He'd been wrong. There was something sweeter than seeing fear in his old man's eyes. Eva Fox was far sweeter. if he ever had a kid, he wanted a kid like this one.
"Thanks darlin'," He said hoarsely.
"Will I ever see you again?" She cocked her head to the side, wide eyed, waiting for his response. He stared into her eyes, too big for her face. Big and smoky gray like a thunderstorm. Fucking beautiful.
He smiled. "Hope so sweetheart. — Madeline Sheehan

Sex fills a few hours of our lives yet those precious minutes count for more than months and years — Simon Sebag Montefiore

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. — Boleslaw Prus

Unless wealth was chastened by culture or regulated by government, it was at worst predatory, at best boring. — Edmund Morris

The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy. — Rajneesh

[ ... ] Who are you?"
He thought about that. "I'm a boy who doesn't exist," he said, eventually. — Kathryn James

The basic difference between the two phenomenon is that, global warming causes heating effect in the earth's atmosphere, whereas global dimming causes cooling effect. — Sanjit Sen

The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it. — Andrzej Stasiuk

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker. — Spike Lee

I have long carried this load of griefs in the cage of my heart. Now I have given them to you. I hope you are strong enough to hold them. — Qais Akbar Omar

New York isn't jobs, they reply, it's temperament. Most people are in New York because they need evidence - in large quantities - of human expressiveness; and they need it not now and then, but every day. That is what they need. Those who go off to the manageable cities can do without; those who come to New York cannot. — Vivian Gornick

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena. — Lee Smolin

I'll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
And not in paths of high morality,
And not among the half-distinguished faces,
The clouded forms of long-past history.
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:
It vexes me to choose another guide:
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side. — Emily Bronte

You can do more science on the ground than you can in space for the same amount of money. But there is some science you can not do on the ground. — Helen Sharman