Tangang Quotes & Sayings

But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by a higher power was regarded by many in the highest positions as obnoxious and even sinful, and as nothing was to be gained by exciting such hostility, it was better to give a silent or even smiling assent to the fatuous idealism to which, particularly in youth, one was so relentlessly exposed. — Louis Auchincloss

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with That Which Is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. This wanting and rewanting is an endless cycle for which, turns out, there is already a name: samsara. Samsara is at the heart of the vast human carnival: greed, neurosis, mad ambition, adultery, crimes of passion, the hacking to death of a terrified man on a hillside in the name of A More Pure And Thus Perfect Nation
and all of this takes place because we believe we will be made happy once our desires have been satisfied.
I know this. But still I'm full of desire ...
Buddha Boy — George Saunders

And you told me life was learning how to be a friend. — Ben Howard

It was an intensely lonely moment, like all of eighth grade condensed into one claustrophobic second. — Lisa Rowe Fraustino

Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything. — Israel Houghton

Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets. — Rick Scott

There is but one who qualifies as Savior. He alone has the ability to solve our most abysmal dilemma. He alone has the power of life and death. — R.C. Sproul

Religion is behavior and not mere belief. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce

Winning isn't the end of the world — David Pleat

Despair is the source of all evil — Bangambiki Habyarimana

My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate. — George W. Bush

When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience. — Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile. — Edwin Arnold