Standvirtual Quotes & Sayings

No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality. — Andy Stanley

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall. — Eva Green

The best defense against logic is ignorance. — Blaise Pascal

[Marriage] made the hard moments easier and the good moments better. — Jeannette Walls

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew. — Daniel Powter

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace. — Armistead Maupin

What rattled and thumped was a knotted towel full of melting ice cubes. Somebody who loved me very much had put them on the back of my head. Somebody who loved me less had bashed in the back of my skull. It could have been the same person. People have moods. — Raymond Chandler

My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo. — Keke Palmer

So Oxford, at its inception a huddle of theologicians and divines, grew into a city of dreams, and much good may come of that. Little surprise that Middle-earth and Narnia were both discovered here. — Gregory Maguire