Manakala Quotes & Sayings

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's teachings are not spiritual. I repeat this because the question has come to the surface over and over. The idea of spirituality doesn't fit with the iron discipline of a warrior. The most important thing for a shaman like don Juan is the idea of pragmatism. — Carlos Castaneda

In America, you assassinate president. In Soviet Russia, president assassinate you! — Yakov Smirnoff

When you learn that you inspired someone, it's a huge honor. — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about. — Nas

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one. — Princess Diana

Then kindly recall that variation is not the same as deformity. — Laline Paull

I don't know what it's like to read this book. I only know what it was like to live the writing of it. I — Neil Gaiman

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it. — Lisa Unger

When you first time you fall in love, you think that is going to be your whole life project, loving someone. It burns your brain, you kind of become blind, the moment you see the person you're in love with you want to see that person again and again and again, kiss that person, hug that person. You turn blank to the rest of the world. — Gaspar Noe

Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear. — S.D. Gordon

In the midst of darkness, light persists. — Mahatma Gandhi

Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff. — Paul David Tripp

I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better. — William Gibson

And it came to her that the pleasure and stability of dining rooms had always occurred against such a backdrop, against the catastrophic background of universal chaos; such moments of calm were things as fragile and transitory as soap bubbles, destined to burst almost as soon as they blew into existence. Groups of friends, rooms, streets, years, none of them would last. The illusion of stability was created by a concerted effort to ignore the chaos they were imbedded in. And so they ate, and talked, and enjoyed each other's company; this was the way it had been in the caves, on the savannah, in the tenements and the trenches and the cities huddling under bombardment. — Kim Stanley Robinson