Sayles School Quotes & Sayings

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don't have to feel it's happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however, when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long as we're addicted to hope, we feel that we can tone our experience down or liven it up or change it somehow, and we continue to suffer a lot. — Pema Chodron

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. — Bill Gates

I felt it would push me out of my comfort zone and develop my skills. And that's what it's all about - do something new and learn something from it. — Marlene Mienie

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above. — Jonah Goldberg

Sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend — Stephen King

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction. — Matt Taibbi

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school. — Vera Wang

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty. — Joan D. Chittister

I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and know the same references so when they hear it being used as a metaphor to something else they'll be like that's unique, or funny or something that's relatable to me. — Hoodie Allen

And rose from her stool to make a big, bullying point of walking to the scales and weighing them herself. Anna felt scolded and two feet tall. She carried the agitation all the way home and didn't speak another word of German for the rest of the day. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

We die of too much life. — Herman Melville

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it. — George Burns