Sam Halpern Quotes & Sayings

Honor is the only thing that separates us from animals. — Peter Tieryas

I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others. — Nicole Kidman

I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well. — Arthur Conan Doyle

When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance. — Muqtada Al Sadr

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ... — James Sallis

So whatever you want to do, just do it ... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential. — Gloria Steinem

What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover ... we are not alone. — Michael Harner

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. — Christopher Hitchens

One of the names of Buddha is TATHAGATA - one who lives in suchness, one who has become free from all the distractions of the mind. And the miracle is that the mind consists only of distraction, so once you are free of all distractions there is no mind left. In the present there is no mind. In the present there is only consciousness, awareness, watchfulness. — Rajneesh

You are the reason I wake up with a smile on my face, and the reason I go to sleep with a sense of belonging in this world — Erica Orloff

San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry. — Jack Kenny

Todo te lo tragaste, como la lejania, como el mar, como el tiempo ... Ese fue mi destino y en el viajo mi anhelo, y en el mi anhelo, todo en ti fue naufragio!
(You swallowed everything, like distance, like the sea, like time. This was my destiny and it was the voyage of my longing, in it my longing fell, in you everything sank.) — Pablo Neruda

Good taste is the enemy of creativity. — Pablo Picasso

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly. — Elton John

Everybody has laws he lives by, I expect. I have mine as well."
"What laws?"
Bond Rogers was dismayed. Yet she waited, evidently as curious as her son.
"I will not be laid a hand on. I will not be wronged. I will not stand for an insult. I don't do these things to others. I require the same from them. — Glendon Swarthout