Shamatha Vipashyana Quotes & Sayings

Never mind what some will say, for then thou wilt never have done. One may as soon tie up the winds, as the tongues of slanderers. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death. — Otto Weininger

When a democracy reaches a point where the politicians cannot say no to the people, and both parties are competing for votes by promising even more spending or even lower taxes, or both, the experiment is about over. — Pat Buchanan

But Zelda was never about plot. Indeed, one's head could explode if all the games were considered one story, since Link is always meeting Zelda and villainous Gannon for the first time. Imagine trying to explain why James Bond has stayed forty years old for forty years, while changing faces and hair color. Better to accept the story as a constant retelling, and don't dwell on continuity matters. Mario has made a cottage industry of jokes about how Bowser had only one playbook - kidnap the princess - and this time it'll work! He's utterly incapable of coming up with any other plan. Aside from that one time he obtained a degree in hotel management. — Jeff Ryan

Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no." — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Even if I didn't have any empathy, she did, and that meant I could use it against her. Where logic failed, guilt might save the day. — Dan Wells

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. — Richard Dawkins

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy. — Dorothy Day

Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I'm not giving advice. I don't instruct. At my best, I delight. That's my job. — Ron Koertge

There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into. — Alden Ehrenreich

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure. — Indiana Evans