Shaolin Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

I have no plans for the money but it'll be awfully nice to have it. — Helen Hooven Santmyer

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. — Oscar Wilde

If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication. — Stephen Covey

I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first. — Kaley Cuoco

She closed her eyes and let the rain fall on her face,
and after another second, I could not have said what were raindrops, and what tears. — Sarah Waters

One of the favorite speakers was a man in red who warned of sickle-cell anemia, 'a deadly organism lurking in all nigger blood.'

'If so much as one drop of nigger blood gets in your baby's cereal,' he said, 'the baby will surely die in one year.' He did not explain how he thought a negro would come to bleed in anyone's cereal. — Charles Portis

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own. — Gogen Yamaguchi

Humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter, rain. — Jenny Downham

One gift I think is a great one is a gift for self-entertainment. — Marty Rubin

If you believed in the "mediocrity of the masses," as he put it, then mediocrity became the ceiling on what you could achieve. — Daniel H. Pink

My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership. — Kobe Bryant

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?' — Neil Peart

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes. — Zygmunt Bauman

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany. — Criss Jami