Nilaya Foundation Quotes & Sayings

A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness. — T.E. Lawrence

I'm at the beach all the time. I surf. I fish. I dive. These things on Instagram are really my life with my buddies doing my normal day-to-day stuff. I happen to be shirtless a lot. — Scott Eastwood

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. — Epictetus

The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments.
They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul.
If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away.
If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth. — Meister Eckhart

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it. — William R. Alger

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. — Cesare Pavese

When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them. — John Badham

Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil. — Posidonius

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society ... — Jacque Fresco

I think we're going back to the way things use to be, before a bunch of European intellectuals in tights decided to draw a line between what's rational and what's not. I don't think our ancestors thought the distinction was necessary.
(pg 370) — G. Willow Wilson

He'd never said a single thing anyone objected to. Tapioca in a suit. — Ruth Cardello

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do. — Douglas Sirk

Allo, darlin'. Oi'm so glad to see it's love at first sight for you, too. — Elizabeth Haydon

The number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler

Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to. — Barbara Pym