Slikarski Quotes & Sayings

When we put together two substances in nature that are dry, they cannot cohere; there is no way for them to join. When we add wetness, these two substances can bond; they can come together. In just that same way, the force of metta, lovingkindness, allows us to cohere, to come together within ourselves and with all beings. The beauty of this truth moved the Buddha to say that sustaining a loving heart, even for the duration of the snap of a finger, makes one a truly spiritual being. — Sharon Salzberg

In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero. — Paul Watson

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists. — Mikhail Gorbachev

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined. — Henry Ward Beecher

They love you for the same reasons they don't love anyone else. — Tijan

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism ... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine. — Maurice De Vlaminck

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art. — Maggie Nelson

Stop busting my balls, Soren. I'm out of tea. — James S.A. Corey

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing? — John Lennon

There is a sound reason why one and a half billion dollars are spent for cosmetics in your country every year, and only half that sum for education: There are no naturally pretty girls in the United States. — Elizabeth Hawes

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny. — Philippe Falardeau

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin. — Joshua Loth Liebman

Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler. — Alan Cohen

There are no incurable ills. — Ozzy Osbourne

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' ... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover. — Bill Gates