Taratsas Quotes & Sayings

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do. — Oscar Isaac

Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise. — Ayya Khema

I am persuaded our discontents, and murmurings with out unpleasing condition, and our covetous desires after more, are not so provoking to God, nor so destructive to the sinner, as our too sweet enjoying, and rest of spirit in a pleasing state ... Our rest is our heaven, and where we take our rest, there we make our heaven(457). — Richard Baxter

If you're lucky, afterwards I'll untie you and let you leave with us," he replied. — Stylo Fantome

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long. — Herodotus

If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying. — Chris Van Allsburg

He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice. Being in his arms feels like the home I never had. — Susan Ee

And he has never
given up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound to be the Door into
Summer. You know, I think he is right. — Heinlein Robert A.

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.' — Joseph Murray

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You know what's crazy about Yao? He speaks perfect English. A lot of people don't know that. Perfect English. When I was over there, I called him. He's like, 'Whassup big fella?' Perfect English! — Shaquille O'Neal

Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The past is prologue! — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.