Kitakami Wows Quotes & Sayings

Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free. — Jason Alexander

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington. — Dalai Lama XIV

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone. — John Selden

Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others. — Bell Hooks

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember. — Aristotle.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. — Margaret Thatcher

What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God? — Richard Dawkins

She must be willing to feel anxious sometimes, otherwise she might as well have stayed in the nest. Sometimes — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Yes," I told her. "I'm angry, so what?"
... I went on, giving her an executive summary of my crappy life.
...
"So of course I feel angry," I said angrily. "What do you expect? It was a stupid thing to ask."
"Yes," she agreed. "It was a stupid thing to ask. I see that you're angry. I don't need to ask such a stupid thing to understand that."
"So why did you ask?"
Slowly she turned herself around, pivoting on her knees, until finally she was facing me, "I asked for you," she said.
"For me?"
So you could hear the answer. — Ruth Ozeki

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law. — Rousas John Rushdoony

Not only does the summer bring warm weather and tons of summer activities, but it also yields a fresh crop of increasingly useful avocados! — Marcus Samuelsson

But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightning. — John Green

I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again. — Tracy Pollan

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color. — Annie Leibovitz