Mandezs Lafayette Quotes & Sayings

In Zen, such a glimpse is called satori. Satori is a moment of Presence, a brief stepping out of the voice in your head, the thought processes, and their reflection in the body as emotion. — Eckhart Tolle

I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes ... it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal
or completely shattered. — E. Lockhart

Everything interesting was in the books; it was books that made me aware of the variety of the world. — Teju Cole

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now. — John Selden

Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!
- Abigail — Arthur Miller

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie. — Neil Simon

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness. — William Slim

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. — Bob Beauprez

The darker the walls,the brighter the sky outside. — Alex Gaskarth

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them. — Manuel Puig

In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex. — Matisyahu

love is a skill to be learnt, rather than just an emotion to be felt. It — The School Of Life

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena. — Lee Smolin