Laotian People Quotes & Sayings

The unknown doesn't bother me. I nod now and then to the beautiful women plucking the flowers in my gardens and I hear the wind rustling through the high pines, through the forests of certainty, of knowing that all this exists whenever I decide to think it. I am grateful that this has been given to me. And I puff on my pipe in all humility and feel like God himself, who is infinity itself. I sit there aimlessly, God's aim is aimlessness.

But to keep this awareness always is granted to no man — Nescio

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race. — Cameron Diaz

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic. — Kevin Bacon

Our civic life is heavily marked - indeed, pocked - by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate - in its original sense of "to consider something, to deliberate" - is impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained. — Leah Hager Cohen

Function is a fantasy ... the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever. — David Pye

So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R. — Tim Vine

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is — John Lancaster Spalding

We're eatable ants. — H.G.Wells

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them. — Tony Judt

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious. — Kenneth Oppel

I'm ensconced in the soul ... and I look around and everything is love. — Ram Dass

It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear of death may be the one emotion that is constant in the human heart even if, most of the time, it is confined to the unconscious as we go about our business. Thrill rides offer us a chance to acknowledge our ever-present dread, to release the tension that arises from repression of it, and to subtly delude ourselves with the illusion of invulnerability that surviving the Big Drop can provide. — Dean Koontz

I knew boxing before I knew anything else. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Freedom-loving people around the world must say ... I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism. — Ronald Reagan

Today is a day of remembrance that is heavy on my heart. — Vickie Guerrero