Hemali Quotes & Sayings

As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved. — Nigel Lawson

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving. — Henri Matisse

You're not my client. You never have been. And even if you were, I'd break every fucking rule I've ever held sacred just to be inside you right now. — Leisa Rayven

I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified. — Willie Nelson

What then? Joy-jaunts, impassioned flings, Love and its ecstasy, Will always have been great things, great things to me! — Thomas Hardy

Instead, the Buddha replied, "I am going to send you back to the same forest, but I will provide you with the only protection you will need." This was the first teaching of metta meditation. The Buddha encouraged the monks not only to recite the metta phrases but to actually practice them. As these stories all seem to end so happily, so did this one - it is said that the monks went back and practiced metta, so that the tree spirits became quite moved by the beauty of the loving energy filling the forest, and resolved to care for and serve the monks in all ways. The inner meaning of the story is that a mind filled with fear can still be penetrated by the quality of lovingkindness. Moreover, a mind that is saturated by lovingkindness cannot be overcome by fear; even if fear should arise, it will not overpower such a mind. — Sharon Salzberg

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward. — William Landay

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not. — Sophocles

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby
And you ain't learned to love me yet? — Nick Cave

In a society riven into 'us' and 'them', an ambitious young person might well want to be one of the group in the know, one of the unmolested. If there was never going to be an end to your country, and you could never leave, why wouldn't you opt for a peaceful life and a satisfying career? — Anna Funder

The OASIS lets you be whoever you want to be. That's why everyone is addicted to it. — Ernest Cline