Szentesi Mag Quotes & Sayings

There's really no avoiding the fact that suffering is part of life. And of course we have a natural tendency to dislike our suffering and problems. But I think that ordinarily people don't view the very nature of our existence to be characterized by suffering ..." The Dalai Lama suddenly began to laugh, "I mean on your birthday people usually say, 'Happy Birthday!,' when actually the day of your birth was the birth of your suffering. But nobody says, 'Happy Birth-of-Sufferingday!" he joked. — Dalai Lama XIV

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor — Bill W.

It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail. — Robert A. Heinlein

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. — Pat Buckley

I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older. — Michelle Pfeiffer

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. — Morton Feldman

Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. — Lord Chesterfield

I don't think I'm going to be priest material. — Lionel Richie

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Tact is that quality of grace that wins the confidence of people who are sure you won't do or say something stupid. You can't inspire a following if people have to hang their heads in embarrassment at the inappropriate and insensitive things you say or do. Tact is especially needed in a leader to help cope with embarrassing or tragic situations. — John Piper

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men. — Patrick Ness

Were you terrified, Murgatroyd?" Murgatroyd nodded eagerly. "There you go, girl: You're a terrorist. You make me twitchy, and under Article Forty-One of the 2000 Terrorism Bill, that's all I need. Time for some reasonable force, I think. — China Mieville

We don't know exactly how this memory works. We think it is the sum total of several complex biochemical reactions and interactions. Researchers also don't know exactly how the human memory works. They think it is the sum total of several complex biochemical reactions and interactions. The — Hope Jahren