Fluskimi Quotes & Sayings

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! — Robert Burns

We sometimes think that dharma is something outside of ourselves - something to believe in, something to measure up to. However, dharma isn't a belief; it isn't dogma. It is total appreciation of impermanence and change. The teachings disintegrate when we try to grasp them. We have to experience them without hope. Many brave and compassionate people have experienced them and taught them. The message is fearless; dharma was never meant to be a belief that we blindly follow. Dharma gives us nothing to hold on to at all. — Pema Chodron

The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again. — Matthew Arnold

Fate does not favor the dim. — Christopher Moore

Didn't she understand? He didn't want that starfish freak! He wanted her! — Toni Aleo

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me. — Kristian Bush

Like the button, the wheelbarrow, the spoon and the umbrella, the printed book is one of the truly great inventions of mankind - beautifully efficient and enduringly ideal. The place to acquire these wonderful objects is in a bookshop, where thousands upon thousands of varieties await you. There is no substitute for the real thing. — William Boyd

What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance. — Clarice Lispector

I do think that Christians will make music that oh should have some of the grandest visions of why we should create music and why we should seek to create beauty world. — Michael Gungor

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

There are some men apparently born to be the reverse of the coin; their name is a continuation, and is never written except preceded by the conjunction "and." Their existence is not their own. — Victor Hugo

No one can hate me more than I hate myself. — Sarah Kane

A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers cannot find or will not deign to use. I doubt if this is true. Nor do I believe the contention of some popular novelists ... that thier success is based on literary merit
that the public understands true greatness in ways the tight-a**ed, consumed-by-jealousy literary establishment cannot. This idea is ridiculous, a product of vanity and insecurity. — Stephen King

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune. — Francois Rabelais

I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand. — Cornel West