Hardily Defined Quotes & Sayings

I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it. — Lewis Carroll

Having written extensively about the practice of mindfulness in A Gradual Awakening I suggest that you refine your practice with this book as well as Jack Kornfield's excellent A Path with Heart. We — Stephen Levine

I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city. — Kareena Kapoor Khan

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. — Andrew Carnegie

Your intuition won't fail you, the quest dear; is to silence your mind so you can feel your way home. — Nikki Rowe

I always think the villains in all of the Disney movies are almost operatic in scale. — Jonathan Freeman

He looked at me with serious eyes, but not the kind that made me wonder what I'd done wrong. The kind that made me wonder what I'd done right. — Denise Jaden

None so as those that will not hear; none so blind and those that will not see. — Nancy Holder

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera. — Mira Sorvino

Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward. — Stephen Richards

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state. — Brother Yun

Even though it's dark and cold there is always a shade of light. — Angela Bernabe

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve. — Deepak Chopra

Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows. — Rick Yancey

A belief may be larger than a fact. — Vannevar Bush