Gilus Milk Quotes & Sayings

There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it? — E. Haldeman-Julius

You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man ... — Richard Wright

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual. — Mark Helprin

And youth, though they see every day the cradle and grave shaped so alike, never believe death will happen to them. I told you it was a comedy. — Parke Godwin

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe. — Menander

I think freedom means freedom for everybody, — Dick Cheney

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words. — Voltaire

I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are not easily available. You have to earn entrance into them. You didn't learn things for too little. You had to pay a price. And I felt that LSD was just blasting superhighways into the mysteries. And what I really didn't like about LSD is that people who were taking it were seeming to become less and less as they took it. They got emptier and more vapid. — Norman Mailer

I don't want you skinny, Bride. I like you as you are." His breath tickled her neck as he spoke and sent heat all over her. "My people have a saying. Meat is for the man, the bone is for the dog." "Yeah, but you're both." "And when given a choice between ribs and steak, I go for top choice every time. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Alec: Catarina made up the Bermuda Triangle?
Magnus: Don't be ridiculous, Alexander. That was Ragnor. — Cassandra Clare

I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless man as to speak ill of a good man. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil. — Sheri L. Dew