Ismaili Insight Quotes & Sayings

In Buddhism there are words you can say ... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious. — Tina Turner

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him. — Anne Bronte

Technology is our new mythos. There's magic in some of it, undeniably. — Christian Rudder

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. — Roger Ascham

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. — Helen Fisher

She stooped to pick a wild pink rose, avoiding the tiny spines that slivered like unseen glass hairs onto one's fingers. There was little scent, but the creamy softness of the petals like the insides of a dog's ear more than made up for it. She placed one on her tongue, and imagined she could taste the hills, the bittersweet tang of life. — Jonis Agee

It was the kind of building that remembered things, deep-down things, things that rode tears into the world, telling them back to anyone old enough or wise enough to know how to listen with their eyes. — Charles M. Blow

Faith is the function of the heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

And though Lotto was thoroughly straight, the daily greedy need of his hands told her this, her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body and the body itself. And there was a part of her husband that had always been so hungry for beauty. — Lauren Groff

I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way. — Rafe Esquith

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed. — Nicolas Chamfort

Dynamic capability is the ability to reconfigure your organization in the way that has the effect of increasing its variety. — Pearl Zhu

When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go. — Steven Zaillian

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know. — Phil Jackson

To maintain order in your bureaucratic life, you more or less have to stay home; go away for any length of time and you're always likely to run afoul of some agency or other. — Michel Houellebecq