Signerica Quotes & Sayings

We read fiction to satisfy a more basic need - to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something new about the world, and maybe about ourselves, or to remind us of something important that we may have forgotten. — Tom Perrotta

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course. — Andrew Greeley

The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings. — Harry Blamires

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real. — Paul Greengrass

Your parents are just trying to do what's best for you," said Carla. "A lot of people think counselors don't belong in schools." She shrugged. "I guess they're afraid I might full your head with all kinds of crazy ideas. — Louis Sachar

Nobody asks her not to understand! It's a lesson for these foreigners! — Anton Chekhov

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. — Mario Puzo

Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042. — Grace Napolitano

It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing. — John Fletcher

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning. — Paulette Alden

If there's - one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing 'improbable' because it happens to be outside his own special, puny experience of life. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

The Sravaka (literally 'hearer,' the name given by Mahayana Buddhists to contemplatives of the Hinayana school) fails to perceive that Mind, as it is in itself, has no stages, no causation. Disciplining himself in the cause, he has attained the result and abides in the samadhi (contemplation) of Emptiness for ever so many aeons. However enlightened in this way, the Sravaka is not at all on the right track. From the point of view of the Bodhisattva, this is like suffering the torture of hell. The Sravaka has buried himself in Emptiness and does not know how to get out of his quiet contemplation, for he has no insight into the Buddha-nature itself. Mo Tsu When Enlightenment is perfected, a Bodhisattva is free from the bondage of things, but does not seek to be delivered from things. Samsara (the world of becoming) is not hated by him, nor is Nirvana loved. When perfect Enlightenment shines, it is neither bondage nor deliverance. Prunabuddha-sutra — Aldous Huxley