Fiddling Emperor Quotes & Sayings

The fire crackled. On Jutaire, without oxygen, the fire is different. Fed by different air. Maybe it wishes it were orange, for it sputters and reaches up to the sky with angry fists of blue and purple. It still doesn't know we can't all get what we want. — Hafsah Faizal

Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness. — S. N. Goenka

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all. — Namsoon Kang

A few years back, an American Jewish feminist academic sent me a request for an interview... The professor presented herself as a gender scholar, another postmodernist discipline that fails to inspire my intellect. However, I was curious to see what a person who happens to be academically qualified in being a woman might come up with. — Gilad Atzmon

TAKE A SUBJECT, a situation, a story that is hard for you to talk about, and write about it. Write slowly, evenly, in a measured way. Don't skip over any part of it. Stay in there. It might take you several days, a week, a month to write out the whole thing. Continue to work on it every day until it is finished. — Natalie Goldberg

Since God has a will for us, He must want us to know it. If so, then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Breakfast: Cinnamon Banana Pancakes These dairy-free and egg-free pancakes are not only delicious, but they are full of calcium, good fats and potassium that are healing to the body. Serves: 2 Cooking time: 30 minutes Ingredients: 4 overripe bananas, mashed 2 tablespoons coconut oil ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder ½ teaspoon allspice 2 tablespoons maple syrup — Amelia Sanders

You have been endowed with the power to use the most highly organized form of energy known to man, that of thought. — Napoleon Hill

For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing. — Jonah Lehrer

I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that. — Tamara Ecclestone

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges. — Jeff Abbott

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda. — Silvan Shalom

[Put] on your oxygen mask first. We cannot give our children something we don't have ourselves. I encourage you to make a commitment to having a quiet time with God every day. This may involve some sacrifices, such as waking up ten minutes earlier, turning off the morning news for a few minutes, or finding time alone, but I can promise that the results will be worth it. — Tamara L. Chilver

People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering ... — Richard Yates

You know, Savannah, if you cry, I won't tell anyone,' Ken said quietly. 'I promise. — Suzanne Brockmann