P413 Quotes & Sayings

Those who have nothing have only their discipline. — Alain Badiou

No one is truly honest," Nigel answered. "Even if we don't lie to others, we often lie to ourselves. — Stephanie Garber

The Kazakh authorities banned the film and threatened to sue the comedian after its release in 2006. But later Kazakhstan's foreign minister said he is 'grateful' to Borat for 'helping attract tourists' to the country. — Anupama Chopra

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. — Hugh Prather

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world. — Richard Rohr

There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully. — Sharon Salzberg

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies. — Joyce Carol Oates

I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are. — Cam Newton

Martha Stewart denied allegations that she had been given inside information to sell 4,000 shares of a stock in a biotech firm about to go under. Stewart then showed her audience how to make a festive, quick-burning yule log out of freshly-shredded financial documents. — Dennis Miller

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for. — Clarence Darrow

The Protestant theology of Martin Luther was a thing that no modern Protestant would be seen dead in a field with; or if the phrase be too flippant, would be specially anxious to touch with a barge-pole. — G.K. Chesterton

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech. — Vance Havner

Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by the dryness ... The trees in sunny neighborhoods, therefore, being solidified by the compact texture of their fiber, and not being porous from moisture, are very useful, so far as durability goes, when they are hewn into timber. The lowland firs, being conveyed from sunny places, are better than those highland firs, which are brought here from shady places. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Can I still dunk ... Are you stupid? — Michael Jordan

Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask! — Sheryl Sandberg