Jushu Quotes & Sayings

And no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something inreturn. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude. — Kate Atkinson

What I'd like is a lobotomy, a clean job, the top of my head neatly sawn off and designated contents removed. — Carol Shields

Mindfulness is to understand that there is a no moment left to be unhappy. — Amit Ray

Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were. — Joan Robinson

Destiny might play some of our cards, but we are the choices
we make, Gregorii. — Elyzabeth M. VaLey

If we human beings are information processing machines, reading X's & O's and translating that information into what people oh so breathlessly call "experience", & if I had not only the information but the artistry to shape that information using the computer inside my brain, then, technically speaking, was I not having all the same experiences those other people were having? — Jennifer Egan

As Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) pointed out, twilight 'is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.' Then again, maybe poetry's chief use is to inspire us to watch the sun go down. — Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday. — Georg Buchner

I probably shouldn't mock our family. House Davar is distinctive and enduring."
Jushu raised his cup. Wikim nodded sharply.
"Of course," she added, "the same could be said for a wart. — Brandon Sanderson

Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious. — Heather Mitts

No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e.g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves? — Maximilian Kolbe

What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful? — Jacqueline Novogratz

Fear is acceptable, as long as I don't allow it to cripple me... — K.M. Shea

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel. — Vladimir Nabokov

Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous. — Robert Kiyosaki