Manjushri Quotes & Sayings

What good is intuition if your heart gets in the way of hearing it? — Shannon L. Alder

Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it. — Jodi Picoult

She tried to swallow, to take a breath, but her eyes met his, and there was nothing but aching intensity in his gaze. And she was drawn in, swept away. — J. Lynn

The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious. It was hard work because there is so much known about John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. To try to distill that into a clear narrative that's interesting and tells two great stories was a real challenge. — Kelly Masterson

Our sister Alma was the best hitter in the family. We used to soak corn cobs in water so they wouldn't fly so far when we hit 'em. Alma was the first to hit one far enough to break a window in the barn. — Lloyd Waner

Your grasp of the language is startling," Wax said, "considering how you so frequently brutalize it." "Ain't nobody what knows the cow better than the butcher, Wax. — Brandon Sanderson

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

With heaven in our hearts,
life is romancing us
with glimpses of
the universe dancing. — Ann Louise Ramsey

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason. — Lyman Abbott

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. — Robert Noyce

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force. — Laurence Sterne

Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal identities which should be disappearing in a world where a European Union and globalization are happily shredding such ancient sentiments. Another similar widely spread thesis that holds that the root cause of violence can be found in the pace of the game itself. Because goals come so irregularly, fans spend far too much time sublimating their emotions, anticipating but never releasing. When those emotions swell and become uncontainable, the fans erupt into dark, Dionysian fits of ecstatic violence. — Franklin Foer

No horse jokes," he said.
"My lord, I apologize for the horse joke. If you put down the book
unharmed!
I will give you a carrot."
He brandished the book at her. "Was that a horse joke?"
"Neigh."
"Was that a horse joke? — Cynthia Hand

Downwinders, meaning those people, individuals, communities that were downwind of the nuclear test site. During those years when we were testing atomic bombs above ground, when we watched them for entertainment from the roofs of our high schools, little did we know what was raining down on us, little did we know what would appear years later. — Terry Tempest Williams

If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster. — Sy Montgomery