Carlins Tax Quotes & Sayings

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want. — David Copperfield

The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes. — Jean Dubuffet

I accept calmly what is to be my infamous destiny. — Galeazzo Ciano

I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what the founders did in a lot of their documents, too. They substituted nature or providence for God. I think that's what I do in my head with Jewish God. — Susan Jacoby

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it. — Shunryu Suzuki

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world. — Thich Nhat Hanh

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work. — Robert Breault

Mr. Tope is again highly entertained, and, having fallen into respectful convulsions of laughter, subsides into a deferential murmur, importing that surely any gentleman would deem it a pleasure and an honour to have his neck broken, in return for such a compliment from such a source. — Charles Dickens

Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities. — Edward Hoagland

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn. — James Montgomery