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Inspector Banks Quotes By Dalai Lama XIV

Perhaps more sobering, it has also hardwired us to cooperate with and be kind to those who look like our caregivers, who presumably kept us safe. We are more wary of others who look different: these are the unconscious roots of prejudice. Our empathy does not seem to extend to those who are outside our "group," which is perhaps why the Archbishop and the Dalai Lama are constantly reminding us that we are, in fact, one group - humanity. — Dalai Lama XIV

Inspector Banks Quotes By Saul Bellow

Take the fact that people generally were full of loathing and it cost them an effort to look at one another. Mostly they wanted to be let alone. And they dug for unreality more than for treasure, unreality being last great hope because then they could doubt that what they knew about themselves was true. — Saul Bellow

Inspector Banks Quotes By Oswald Chambers

I am called to live in perfect relation to God so that my life produces a longing after God in other lives, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God is not after perfecting me to be a specimen in His show-room; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He likes. — Oswald Chambers

Inspector Banks Quotes By C.S. Lewis

But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger. — C.S. Lewis

Inspector Banks Quotes By Phil Anselmo

I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio. — Phil Anselmo

Inspector Banks Quotes By Franz Beckenbauer

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances — Franz Beckenbauer

Inspector Banks Quotes By Joseph P. Kauffman

Healthy soil = healthy food = healthy body = healthy mind = healthy life. It is as simple as that. The health of our soil determines the quality of our food, the quality of our food determines the amount of energy and nutrients our bodies get, the amount of energy and nutrients we get determines our mood and its influence on our thoughts, which in turn create a balanced and healthy lifestyle. — Joseph P. Kauffman

Inspector Banks Quotes By Tamsin Egerton

Guinevere is just head over heels and doesn't know how to handle these new emotions that she's feeling, as a young woman. Unfortunately, she can't reign it all in, all the time. And, even though she tries to do the right thing and be the good girlfriend and have her morals, she slips up a little bit. — Tamsin Egerton

Inspector Banks Quotes By Ellen Hopkins

Losing Grandma, just when I'd found her again. A waterfall of flowers brightened her funeral, but they couldn't disguise the stench of death. — Ellen Hopkins

Inspector Banks Quotes By Gloria Steinem

Writing is always harder than talking. — Gloria Steinem

Inspector Banks Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do. — Kurt Vonnegut

Inspector Banks Quotes By Elizabeth F. Howell

Being bound to one particular storyline such that one's narrative is rigid, does not imply the need to avoid formulating particular other kinds of possibilities. Rather, it involves being stuck in one self-limiting, self-reinforcing set of possibilities. — Elizabeth F. Howell

Inspector Banks Quotes By Priscilla West

So when's your date?" I had to work on being less obvious. "Tomorrow." "Good. If you said there wasn't a date I was going to smack you. — Priscilla West

Inspector Banks Quotes By Aldous Huxley

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes. — Aldous Huxley

Inspector Banks Quotes By Peter Robinson

But he couldn't feel self-pity in the face of the memorial. He hadn't lost nearly enough as these children, who'd lost their homeland and, in many cases,their whole families. Perhaps they had gained something, too, though. They had at least escaped the concentration camps, been taken in by good, caring families, and had grown up to live their lives in relative freedom. — Peter Robinson