Gelong Thubten Quotes & Sayings

Black people, we are not this monolithic group, you know? — Joy Bryant

There's a famous quote by Benjamin Franklin that I always loved: "By failing to prepare, you're preparing to fail". — Argena Olivis

Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S'mores. — J.Z. Bingham

His fingers spread and twitch as he feels several reverberating points on the map of his awareness: his fellow slaves. He cannot free them, not in the practical sense. He's tried before and failed. He can, however, make their suffering serve a cause greater than one city's hubris, and one empire's fear. — N.K. Jemisin

Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything. — Thales

Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth. — Murray Walker

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something. — Peter Gould

Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world. — William Mountford

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant. — Mark Hart

I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect ... For after all, they could be my people. — James A. Michener

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all. — Katherine Boo

Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties. — Thomas E. Mann