Oversetter Quotes & Sayings

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are. — Pema Chodron

If you want converts, surely one normal person is worth all the half-wits in the world!" "May I tell you the truth Lieutenant Rahms? The truth, Sir, is that God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours. So different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things. In the scripture I learn that God values us not for our strength or our brains, but simply because He has made us. Who knows, in His eyes, a half-wit may be worth more than a watchmaker. Or a Lieutenant. — Corrie Ten Boom

There is a great need for a sarcasm font. — Darynda Jones

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself. — Thomas Brooks

It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film." — Stephen Fry

I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes. — Roman Romanenko

Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can come out of good — Jose Saramago

Cohen testified that there was no 'direct relationship' linking heart disease to dietary fats, and that he had been able to induce the same blood-vessel complications seen in heart disease merely by feeding sugar to his laboratory rats. Peter Cleave testified to his belief that the problem extended to all refined carbohydrates. 'I don't hold the cholesterol view for a moment,' Cleave said, noting that mankind had been eating saturated fats for hundreds of thousands of years. 'For a modern disease to be related to an old-fashioned food is one of the most ludicrous things I have ever heard in my life ... but, when it comes to the dreadful sweet things that are served up ... that is a very different proposition. — Gary Taubes

I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that's not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.' — Meghan Trainor

I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time. — Stefan Edberg

Government interventions create unintended consequences that lead to calls for further intervention, and so on into a destructive spiral of more and more government control. — Ron Paul

Bree knew this habit of hers rankled Lara more than any other
her ability to make a decision and announce that there would be no further discussion was, in Lara's opinion, 'Cruel and selfish behavior, the type usually enacted by men with small penises. — J. Courtney Sullivan

She shook her head. "I won't go."
His chuckle had absolutely no humor in it. "You say that
as if you have a choice."
"There is always a choice. — Aliyah Burke

Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy. — Elizabeth Von Arnim