Kapena Collection Quotes & Sayings

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. — Emily Dickinson

Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion ... — Tilopa

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit. — Derek Bok

It is probably easier to land a quadruple jump in ice-skating than to get my five children to depart our home in a timely manner. Everyone knows leaving anywhere with a large group is extremely difficult. I don't know how Moses did it. — Jim Gaffigan

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies. — Bill Maher

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave. — M.J. Rose

Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp. — Edward Abbey

You make the mistake of considering Christianity as something that developed over the course of a few years, from the death of Jesus to the time the gospels were written. But Christianity wasn't new. Only the name was new. Christianity was merely a stage in the meeting, cross-fertilization, metamorphosis of Western logic and Eastern mysticism. Look how the religion itself changed over the centuries, reinterpreting itself to meet changing times. Christianity is just a new name for a conglomeration of old myths and philosophies. All the gospels do is retell the sun myth and garble some of the ideas from the Greeks and Romans. — Michael Moorcock

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come. — Alexander Pope

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas. — Norman Lock

Her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason ... — W. Somerset Maugham

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be — Tom Landry