Hirschlein Quotes & Sayings

In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering swimming in the summer, feeling the breeze. In this contemplation I observed that the self is more elusive than I thought. — Sakyong Mipham

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. — Dieter Rams

I thought I saw the face of God. — George Frideric Handel

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. — Henry David Thoreau

There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us. — Sarah Vowell

She wants to have hiked; I want to have had dessert. — Anne Lamott

There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents. — David Sedaris

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. — Richard M. Nixon

They say old people always come to Arizona, you know, to get recharged. — Shaquille O'Neal

Love those who love you back; leave those who think lust is love. — Vinita Kinra

I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers. — Jimmy Carter

If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better. — Bryant McGill

Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them. — Mark Hopkins