Majjhima Nikaya Quotes & Sayings

The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and while rarely explicit what they're really worried about is death — Sam Harris

No, I don't want you to leave. I'm just grabbing your coat and nudging your toward the door for fun #AHOLE — A.O. Storm

Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence. — Anne Michaels

Who had the biggest army in the ancient world? Caesar Augustus in Rome, and that is precisely how he was able to dominate that world. Nevertheless, his army is nothing compared to this angelic stratias that has lined up behind the new emperor. Remember Isaiah's prophesy that Yahweh would one day bare his mighty arm before all the nations. N.T. Wright has magnificently observed that the prophecy finds its fulfillment in the tiny arm of the baby Jesus coming out of his manger-crib. — Robert E. Barron

As with all stories, they must start somewhere; often beginning with a notable deed or achievement. With him, we will start with his first and best achievement:

He survived. — K. Caffee

Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college, — Michele Bachmann

There is only one way fit for a man
Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand. — C.S. Lewis

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. — Scott Turow

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other. — A.J.P. Taylor

I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it. — Douglas Wilson

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to. — Denzel Washington

We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them. — Frederick Lenz

And she couldn't lose the one thing holding her sanity together, even if he also drove her crazy — Cindi Madsen

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air. — Travis Barker