Phurba Thinley Quotes & Sayings

Around here, I'm pretty sure 'us' means Texans, and 'them' means the other seven billion on the planet. — Marcus Sakey

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R R Martin

Father, your Son taught us to pray, "Hallowed be thy name" before "Give us this day our daily bread." Help me pray not "You've got to do this, God!" but "Be glorified in my life." That is hard at first; then it is freedom itself. Amen. — Timothy J. Keller

Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest. — Stephen Jay Gould

A heartbreak isn't as loud as a bomb exploding. Sometimes it can be as quiet as a feather falling and the most painful thing is no one really hears except you. — Anonymous

Customs are generally unselfish.
Habits are nearly always selfish. — G.K. Chesterton

Football is my life. I guess I can't live without it. — Berti Vogts

Madoka: Won't anyone notice that Mami-san is dead?
Homura: Mami Tomoe's only relatives are distant relations. It will be quite some time before anyone files a missing persons report. When one dies on that side of the wards, not even a body is left behind. She'll wind up forever a "missing person" ... That is what happens to magical girls in the end.
Madoka: ... That's too cruel! Mami-san has been fighting all alone for a long time for everyone's sake! For no one to even notice that she's gone ... That's just too lonely a fate ...
Homura: It is just that kind of contract that gives us the power in the first place. It isn't for anyone else's sake. We fight on for the sake of our own prayer. So for no one to notice ... for the world to forget us ... That is just something we have to accept. — Magica Quartet

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number. — Guy Kawasaki

She imagined herself at age nine, running through these very halls, crying out to her older self across the years. — Hugh Howey

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation — Mikhail Lermontov

think of daily life as an ever-moving three-dimensional painting with you as the artist, — Jane Roberts