Compiegne Armistice Quotes & Sayings

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for. — Britt Daniel

These wafers had entered the mythology of the company, including their names: Tunguska, Vesuvius, Tokyo. The Vesuvius wafer put you on the Bay of Naples at 7:00 a.m. on August 24, A.D. 79, just before burning ash killed everyone. Tunguska left you in Siberia in 1908, just before the giant meteor struck, causing a shock wave that killed every living — Michael Crichton

Tomorrow is another opportunity to improve yourself — Scott A. Reighard

Imagine Jesus today: He is leaning over, bending down close to someone who is hurt. He's listening. His eyes fill with tears as He hears that person's troubles. Then His hand gently brushes away a tear. He was hurt once too. He understands. — Max Lucado

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. — Dylan Thomas

The foundational Vajrakilaya is the sun shining in the sky behind the clouds. The path Vajrakilaya is the removal of the clouds from the sky through the force of wind and rain, or whatever; it is the path of method and wisdom, combined. And the resultant Vajrakilaya is the nature of your mind, the nature of your rigpa, which is the same mind as the mind of the primordial buddha, Kuntuzangpo. The path Vajrakilaya is the removal of the adventitious veil of obscuration that covers rigpa. Applying the method by practicing generation stage (kyerim) and completion stage (dzogrim), accumulating merit and purifying negative karma, removing that veil, is the path. The result is realizing that ones own self nature is buddha. So the result is the same as the foundation. In the beginning you are buddha, and in the end you are buddha. — Gyatrul Rinpoche

In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him. — Chris Cleave

I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will. — Margaret Atwood

Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life. — Frederick Lenz

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for? — Sarah Parcak

The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge. — Annie Dillard

Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature. — Carlos Fuentes

I don't like French food. I like everything but French food. — Emmanuelle Seigner

When my hair is dyed, I feel like I'm 35 again. — Kevin Nash