Rolong Quotes & Sayings

People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony. — Ray Dalio

But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did.

I could see now how wrong I was. Sometimes people don't volunteer to be victims and they become victims anyway. — Marian Keyes

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason. — Mahatma Gandhi

Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day. — Miyamoto Musashi

Do but observe our grim philosophers that are perpetually beating their brains on knotty subjects, and for the most part you'll find them grown old before they are scarcely young. And — Erasmus

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. — Graham Greene

The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over. — Dave Barry

If there was anything he'd learned in his life, it was to fight fire with fire, and if that didn't work, piss on the fire to put it out. — Marissa Clarke

But I am still far from them, and my sense does not speak to their sense. To men I am something between a fool and a corpse. — Friedrich Nietzsche

An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world. — Frederick Lenz