Skillicorn Missoula Quotes & Sayings

Whenever a thought occurs, be aware of it, as soon as you are aware of it, it will vanish. If you remain for a long period forgetful of objects, you will naturally become unified. This is the essential art of zazen.32 — Yi Wu Taigen Leighton

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction ... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are. — Ben Carson

Officers succumbed to the spirit of conspirators. — Barbara W. Tuchman

My stormtrooper suit would chip underneath the armpits and in between the thighs. So they had to do a lot of editing for my costume and shave some areas down. — John Boyega

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy. — Paul Buchheit

Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government. — Peter Singer

As de Beauvoir put it, religion had given men a God like themselves
a God exclusively male in imagery, which legitimized and sealed their power. How fortunate for men, she said, that their sovereign authority has been vested in them by the Supreme Being. — Sue Monk Kidd

The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent. — Wes Smith

Every intelligent being enjoys complexity. — Brenda Laurel

If you share your pans with no one, no one can betray you. — George R R Martin

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same. — Heraclitus

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish. — Robert H. Jackson

Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they are born, and dying anyway so soon after they are born - and yet in each child, every one, has all the potentiality, has it still, and completely, to leap from his low half-animal state to true humanity. Each one of them with this potential, and yet so few can be reached, to make the leap. — Doris Lessing