Rigpa Wiki Quotes & Sayings

It's so nice to be able to end a sentence with a preposition when it's easier. — David Foster Wallace

True dreamers are both geniuses and madmen. Most lands can tolerate only a few, and those die young. — N.K. Jemisin

Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it. — Michael Crichton

Courage is knowing what not to fear. — Plato

The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives. — Edward Gibbon

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy. — Walter Cronkite

I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about. — Marie Helvin

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God. — Ronald Reagan