Chetsang Rinpoche Quotes & Sayings

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit. — Edmund White

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively. — Robert M. Parker Jr.

Halt Halt, said Gilan stepping out into the open. — John Flanagan

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie. — Henry James

I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us. — Gordon Brown

They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for which there is no pardon. She had struck a white man. She had not killed him, however. In her clumsy rage she had only managed to gash his shoulder — Maryse Conde

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer. — Lee Jampolsky

Offer a wise man to be the king of the world, he will refuse it because wisdom is already a kingdom and the king is the kingdom itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time. — Colm Toibin

At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning - just the mere fact that they can stand in front of the mirror and brush their teeth and get in their car and take off? A lot of people take their health for granted. — Brock Lesnar

He is suffering from delusions of adequacy. — Walter Kerr