Ocasiones Reales Quotes & Sayings

The koans in the Blue Cliff Record do their best to introduce people to their true natures. One of them (number 27 out of 100) quotes a monk asking the master Yun Men, "How is it when the tree withers and the leaves fall?" There are many ways to interpret the question, of course. — Mark Epstein

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time. — Mahatma Gandhi

You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie. — David Zucker

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
certainly the machine will wear out ... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn. — Henry David Thoreau

You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received. — Hillary Clinton

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. — Meryl Streep

now I'm blinking in a new gloaming
and all I see as I'm stretched low down here
is a world of women flat on their frozen
faces. we are the ground itself, corporeal
carpet of cells, softness calloused hard
beneath the pebbled soles of the fathers
and husbands and brothers and priests

and it's a horror if you could see it,
a world of women ruined
by man's fear. — Beth Morey

When will you be brave enough to recognize your success story? — Andrea T. Goeglein

God, if you recall, did not warn his people against dirty books. He warned them against high places. — Walker Percy

He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics. — David Louden

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company. — Roy Ayers

The two sides of the debate don't even mention that viewpoint, so far outside the bounds of respectable thought it lies. — Anonymous