Dharmata Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul. — Keith Ellison

To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness. — Oswald Chambers

I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art? — Jami Attenberg

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is ... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for ... — Tony Kushner

If you have clutter, you're richer than you think! — Donna Smallin

Britain might be in the grip of rationing, but buying the materials for a homemade bomb was a piece of cake. (In fact, obtaining the ingredients for a decent cake would have been rather harder.) — Ben Macintyre

If, instead of saying that thieves will go to prison or liars will go to hell, we could make people think that stealing is as bad as going to a funeral in a coloured tie, or lying as bad as frying a sausage on the parlour fire, we should achieve a colossal reformation. — FitzRoy James Henry Somerset

Some phrases just have a nice ring to them, y'know? Like, "The water sprite goes flowing down the river." Or, "Ahh, spring." "It's totally autumn." "Drop dead." "Stiff roundhouse kick." Or, "Thick soy broth." See? — Eiichiro Oda

the trail, and returned home as he had left, stealthily, like an Indian. — Zane Grey

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. — Tupac Shakur

The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You're Crying Is So Brave. — Demi Lovato

If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultures crumble away, their books remain out of sheer stupid solidity. — Paul Collins

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. — Mario Lemieux

This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us, as we are constantly told, but rather to sap our economic vitality and undermine our civil and economic liberties. — Robert Higgs