Phuda Quotes & Sayings

I, Milarepa, fear neither demons nor evils;
If they frightened Milarepa, to what avail
Would be his Realization and Enlightenment?

Ye ghosts and demons, enemies of the Dharma,
I welcome you today!
It is my pleasure to receive you!
I pray you, stay; do not hasten to leave;
We will discourse and play together.
Although you would be gone, stay the night;
We will pit the Black against the White Dharma,
And see who plays the best.
Before you came, you vowed to afflict me.
Shame and disgrace would follow
If you returned with this vow unfulfilled. — Garma C.C. Chang

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby. — Charles Evers

Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly enough, while all governments aim at producing men of this type to the exclusion of all other types, their heroes in the past are of exactly the sort that they aim at preventing in the present. Americans admire George Washington and Jefferson, but imprison those who share their political opinions. — Bertrand Russell

The stupid woman is the one who thinks she doesn't need any help. — Herman Koch

On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission. — Martin McGuinness

Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack Kennedy in 1960, or for Richard Nixon ... Those bastards are scarred forever, and I'm not. At least not for that. Hell, it was an honor to be able to vote against Richard Nixon - and it will be an honor on November 3 [1992] to vote against George Bush and everything he stands for. — Hunter S. Thompson

A garden is composed of a variety of clocks, Aritomo had once told me. Some of them run faster than the others, and some of them move slower than wee can ever perceive. I only understood this fully long after I had been his apprentice. — Tan Twan Eng

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag. — Zig Ziglar

Jesus was announcing that a whole new world was being born and he was "teaching" people how to live within that whole new world. — N. T. Wright

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate. — Jim Butcher

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design. — Antony Flew