Chokyi Rinpoche Quotes & Sayings

I've been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies. — Gracie Gold

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate. — James McAvoy

Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it. — Brandon Sanderson

I know you may not love me, Gabrielle, but I thought you had some affection for me. Perhaps I was wrong." His voice, gone quiet, was even scarier than his previous angry shouting. "You know better," Gabi said quietly. "I ... I don't know if what we share is love. The word seems too mild to explain what I feel for you. It's not cute or schmaltzy or romantic. It scares me." Her voice had dropped to a whisper. "The thought of being without you, it's worse than contemplating death. — Sharon Hannaford

A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on. — Frederick Lenz

There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Loving you is and will always be my greatest honor. You've done the impossible; you've opened me,
Gabriella. And despite what the future may hold for us, I will carry that with me forever. My heart will
always be yours, in life and in death. — S.L. Jennings

It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Sadly, the book of Job was but a speed bump on the Deuteronomic superhighway. The delusion of divine punishments still prevails inside and outside religion over the clear evidence of human consequences, random accidents, and natural disasters. This does not simply distort theology; it defames the very character of God. — John Dominic Crossan

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife. — Thomas B. Macaulay

There was something to be said for the bodiless feeling that came after the cold. Something I would always remember. When you forget how bad it hurts, you feel so free. — Nova Ren Suma

By constantly GIVING, you will change your mindset to that of ABUNDANCE. — A.J. Mihrzad

It's never too late to change, unless you're already fully undressed — Benny Bellamacina

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city. — Vance Bourjaily

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight — Horatio Nelson