Suttas Sutras Quotes & Sayings

Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think that's all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it. — Joshua Michael Stern

As to the right of men to act anywhere according to their pleasure, without any moral tie, no such right exists. Men are never in a state of total independence of each other. It is not the condition of our nature: nor is it conceivable how any man can pursue a considerable course of action without its having some effect upon others; or, of course, without producing some degree of responsibility for his conduct. — Edmund Burke

Senator [Bernie] Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment. — Hillary Clinton

What allows people to have such a strong inner compass, a North Star that steers them through life according to the dictates of their deepest values and purposes? — Daniel Goleman

In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe. — Leon Jouhaux

Think about Mann's own daily routine (ascribed to Aschenbach), read the extant diaries and the letters in which he discusses the novella's themes, and it won't be so obvious that the attraction to Tadzio is completely unprecedented; it also won't be obvious that what Aschenbach wants is full sexual contact. — Philip Kitcher

I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi. — Shaquille O'Neal

[A]ll her hardships had been self-inflicted and recreational in the past. — Iain M. Banks

Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet. — Aristotle.

Move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest. — Amelia Barr

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan