Chicago Turabian Block Quotes & Sayings

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this. — Nhat Hanh

If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn't remember their names. — NoViolet Bulawayo

The past is a whirlpool. If you let it dominate your present moment, it will suck you in," said Shams as if he had read my thoughts. "Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters. — Elif Shafak

If you're living a yielded life, and if you have the preaching and teaching gift, and you're yielding that to God on a continual basis, that's one of the signs that you're in the right place doing the right thing for the right reasons. If you're doing something in the kingdom, and you rarely feel that, that's a red flag. Something needs to be looked at. Are you using the right gift? Are you using it in the right way? For the right reasons? At the right time? In the right context? If I didn't feel it consistently, that would be quite troubling to me. — Bill Hybels

The job of the skin is to keep it all in.

-The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil — Stephen Collins

What an awesome privilege for some, looking upon a human body that houses the forbidden mystery of death. — Mark Smith

Drop Out
detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On
find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In
be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision. — Timothy Leary

Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person. — Gioconda Belli

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that. — Patricia Heaton

When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work. — Penelope Cruz

half a dozen of Jack's friends had set their status. Jack pointed out that instead of just saying "Away" or "Busy" or something like that, people were playing with the status message. One of them had changed it to "Feeling blah," and another had made it "Listening to the White Stripes." Or something like that. Jack said that he liked having a sense of how his friends were feeling or what they were up to just by glancing at these status messages. He asked me if I thought we should build something similar - a way to post a status message and a way to see your friends' status messages. — Biz Stone

When we attach to a problem, we make the problem worse. When we attach to a solution, we make the problem worse. — Barry Graham

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record. — Jason Schwartzman

My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens. — Howard Schultz