Dorje Drolo Quotes & Sayings

Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned. Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring: - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity: - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death. 250
Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! — Herman Melville

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it. — Richelle Mead

It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We don't think of ourselves as citizens in the old sense of being small parts of something larger and infinitely more important to which we have serious responsibilities. We do still think of ourselves as citizens in the sense of being beneficiaries
we're actually conscious of our rights as American citizens and the nation's responsibilities to us and ensuring we get our share of the American pie. We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makers of the pie. So who makes the pie?
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Something has happened where we've decided on a personal level that it's all right to abdicate our individual responsibility to the common good and let government worry about the common good while we all go about our individual self-interested business and struggle to gratify our various appetites. — David Foster Wallace

Can a split quill write fair script?
Can a blunt axe cut wood for the fire?
Can a cripple please a lady? — Juliet Marillier

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. — Tony Blair

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time. — Honore De Balzac

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud. — Gary Oldman

He had also decided on a new course that filled him with joy - he would ask Rapunzel to be his wife. — Melanie Dickerson

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science. — Samuel Johnson

Your exercise of faith builds character. Fortified character expands your capacity to exercise greater faith. Thus, your confidence in making correct decisions is enhanced. And the strengthening cycle continues. The more your character is fortified, the more enabled you are to exercise the power of faith for yet stronger character. — Richard G. Scott

We've got a bad fire let's get out ... We're burning up. — Roger B. Chaffee

Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense. — Lewis Thomas

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government. — Bertrand Russell