Othered Randi Quotes & Sayings

Shall we dance,friend of my heart?
We shall, little one. — Christopher Paolini

You can't mess around with young readers - you have to cut straight to the heart of the story. The character can be complex, the plot can have some surprises, but the emotions have to be clear. — Rodman Philbrick

We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves - or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves. — Roger Scruton

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is Compassion, Endurance, Equanimity, Impartiality, Magnetic, Patient and Just (and Where Justice Is Not, Hate-Traders Profit) — Elizabeth Lucye Robillard

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched. — Henry Morton Stanley

So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something. — Louisa May Alcott

We have to walk slowly and carefully because we are in a hurry. — Khem Veasna

To realize Mahamudra we really need to have accumulated vast meritorious energy at some time in the past. That karma needs to be awakened in this life through intense and persistent aspiration and devotion to the holy guru as well as timely reliance upon the holy guru. This is what is necessary for Mahamudra realization. Any proliferation and collection — Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche

If she did experience sex
or something close to it
in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity. — Haruki Murakami

I'm competitive, but that doesn't stop me from being realistic. — Jacques Villeneuve

I thought, let the best minds of my generation soliloquize about power over some other poor woman's body, I'm off. — Salman Rushdie

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject. — Linda Fiorentino