Le Llaman Bodhi Quotes & Sayings

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. — George Orwell

There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages ... it's a collaboration of ourselves and our ancestors, the result is a deeper understanding for individuals and in consequence, a broader culture for the nation. — Christopher Tunnard

All man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth. And the social system for man on earth is fair enough, eventually, that almost all massive cheating ends in disgrace. — Charlie Munger

The beauty that lies hidden, makes my soul tremble with awe. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

If it could have happened through a film that I was associated with, it would have made be doubly proud. It makes me proud anyway. I am not disappointed. — Shahrukh Khan

Faith is obedience, not compliance. — George MacDonald

They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China. — Lester R. Brown

The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power. — Spencer W. Kimball

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that. — Ed Miliband

It's simpler to believe in a miracle. — William Golding

The pursuit of love is like falconry.- chronicle of death foretold — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter. — Sydney J. Harris

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. — Daniel Webster

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state. — Galileo Galilei

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me. — Marie Antoinette