Shorinji Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes there are no answers. — Christopher Paolini

Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk. — Jonathan Haidt

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."
"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman? — Kurt Vonnegut

I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time. — Idris Elba

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer. — Dolly Parton

Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little control. — Ruth Ozeki

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place. — Charles Kettering

Global economic growth will soon clash with physical barriers. It is physically impossible to fulfil the ideal of progressivism: the spread of techno-scientific consumer culture to ten billion people. When this dream has faded, another will emerge. — Guillaume Faye

I have a few friends who are models, but I know a lot of others as well. We usually go out for a drink or clubbing. — Katie Price

The city hung on him, weighed him down with stone on all sides; it clung to him with the tar of dozens of eyes he could see, and hundreds more he couldn't. Lord, how much easier things were in the forest. — Oksana Zabuzhko

Sensitive people who were used to a rich intellectual life may have suffered much pain (they were often of a delicate constitution), but the damage to their inner selves was less. They were able to retreat from their terrible surroundings to a life of inner riches and spiritual freedom. Only in this way can one explain the apparent paradox that some prisoners of a less hardy make-up often seemed to survive camp life better than did those of a robust nature. — Viktor E. Frankl

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference. — Gene Simmons

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly ... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator. — Erica Jong

Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse." — Frederick Lenz