Kachelofen Quotes & Sayings

I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one. — Robyn Schneider

I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach! — Barry Sternlicht

The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential ... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds. — Walpola Rahula

Hurricane Katrina brought a city, a state and the Bush 43rd Administration to its knees because all levels of government were unprepared for the sheer magnitude of the event. — J.C. Phillips

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things. — Eleanor Catton

Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it. Renunciation confers an infinite power. — Emil M. Cioran

Ruin and recovering are both from within. — Epictetus

Look at the attention the Godfather's getting! Kick my leg, J.R.; kick me in the leg! — Jerry Lawler

IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and pretended to have seen a big ship. She had got married since I went away; it was a made match, a man from the midlands, a Donal, who had worked in a garage but took to farming, out all day, draining fields and callows so that he could till them and sow corn. — Edna O'Brien