Thubten Norbu Quotes & Sayings

If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault. — Ken Follett

I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed. — Greg Rucka

If Nick were on a quest to return the One Ring to the fiery pits of Mount Doom, Jai Hazenbrook would totally be the hot-as-fuck elf in tight leather pants who could shoot the left testicle off an orc at a thousand paces. Whereas Nick, of course, would be the short hairy-footed guy who liked beer and fireworks and second breakfasts. Even in his fantasy worlds, Nick is a realist. — Lisa Henry

Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness — Galway Kinnell

I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people. — Claire Denis

5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. — Anonymous

What do you do with everything that is cut away? she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life ... — Jane Urquhart

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people, - a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Discipline and diligence are up there on the list, but one of the most important qualities of many really successful people is humility. If you have a degree of humility about you, you have the ability to take advice, to be coachable, teachable. A humble person never stops learning. — Todd Blackledge

We canna grieve for those who've gone. Not before we've fought to change the world that took them. — Samantha Shannon

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim. — Robert Fulghum

Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well. — Charlie Munger