Mendicity Institute Quotes & Sayings

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France. — Ahmed Ben Bella

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny. — Hayley Atwell

Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol. — L.M. Montgomery

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good. — Linda Sunshine

When you lost something precious, the memories of it became a tormenting reminder of what you could never have again. — Gena Showalter

To write out the precepts again, we contend with them, and keep them; we build our humanity, and keep our humanity alive ... Thay has named the precepts 'wonderful' ... Wonderful because they can protect us, and show us how to live a joyous life, an interesting, adventurous, deep, large life, and how to be with one another, and with animals, plants, and all the Earth and universe. Wonderful because when we practice the precepts, we existentially become humane, we embody loving kindness ... Standing in the midst of burning ruins, I was glad that I knew the precepts. Though I kept their tenets imperfectly, even in aspiration I created some invisible good that could not be destroyed ... The Five Wonderful Precepts give clear and simple directions to finding that life. In devastation, I have blueprints for making home anew (90-92).
For a Future to Be Possible: Commentaries on the Five Wonderful Precepts — Maxine Hong Kingston

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. — Kurt Vonnegut

In all things God works for the good of those who love Him. — Anonymous

Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction. — John Connolly

...American history can be told and retold, claimed and reclaimed, even by people who don't look like George Washington and Betsy Ross. — Jeremy McCarter

Every single negative can lead to a positive. Any negative situation ... don't get too down about it - you'll work it out. You learn it as you go along. You don't get smart at 17. You just don't unless you're one of a billion. it will happen over time and it's the getting there which will be the most fun. — Simon Cowell

The Queen was saying only the other day that London property prices are so high that she doesn't know how she'd cope without Buckingham Palace,' Princess Margaret explained to a sympathetic Peter Porlock. — Edward St. Aubyn

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy. — Gautama Buddha

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind. — John Godfrey Saxe

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe