Racecourse Marina Quotes & Sayings

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested. — Fulton J. Sheen

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it. — Mark Gatiss

She was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world. — Paulo Coelho

Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha. — Sogyal Rinpoche

I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it. — Haruki Murakami

Only certain portions of the line had to undergo carnage in the French style, but knowledge of it was all-pervasive. Everything the 19th River Guard knew came from quiet meetings in the communications trenches, conversations with sleepless, bitter infantrymen who had been transferred up from the fiercer fighting in the south. If some of the River Guard were on the edge, many of the regular infantry had gone over it long before. Especially disturbing to the naval contingent were reports from down below that Italian troops now were shot quite casually for disciplinary reasons, and that the Italian generals, like their French counterparts, were executing men in decimations for crimes they had not committed. Men with families were pulled from the ranks along with equally mystified adolescents and put to death for acts attributed to others whom they had never seen. — Mark Helprin

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it. — Swami Vivekananda

Why did Jason lie about Naomi?"
Jeremy cleared his throat nervously. "Oh. That. Um ... well, you know, uh ... to see if you'd get jealous." He caught Taylor's expression. "His plan - not mine," he added quickly. Then he cocked his head curiously. "How did you know?"
Taylor couldn't help but smile. "The watch thing. — Julie James

You ever hear about how when you stab somebody, it's really personal? ~ Chris Carmichael — Lance Armstrong

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me. — Bill Walsh

The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice. — N. T. Wright

He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time. — Michael Cunningham

Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice. — Pema Chodron

I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about it. If as a result I was only to produce something that everyone immediately understood I would't have been thinking very profoundly. — Henry Moore

I just want to keep writing music. — Lady Gaga