Troughton Island Quotes & Sayings

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed --
and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. — John Dawkins

The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning or end. Science is said to have proved that the sum total of cosmic energy is always the same. Then, if there was a time when nothing existed, where was all this manifested energy? Some say it was in a potential form in God. In that case God is sometimes potential and sometimes kinetic, which would make Him mutable. Everything mutable is a compound, and everything compound must undergo that change which is called destruction. So God would die, which is absurd. Therefore there never was a time when there was no creation. — Swami Vivekananda

Tim Burton ... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him. — Casper Van Dien

The loneliness she felt before Frank walked her home from Wang's cleaners began to dissolve and in its place a shiver of freedom, of earned solitude, of choosing the walls she wanted to break through, minus the burden of shouldering a tilted man. Unobstructed and undistracted, she could get serious and develop a plan to match her ambition and succeed. — Toni Morrison

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing. — William Penn

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past. — Billy Graham

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery. — Philander Chase Johnson

When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in you. As far as the dimension of truth is concerned both are the same, because in the world of the innermost subjectivity height and depth mean the same. It is one dimension: the vertical dimension. Mind moves horizontally, no-mind exists vertically. The moment the mind ceases to function - that's what meditation is all about: cessation of the mind, total cessation of the mind - your consciousness becomes vertical; depth and height are yours. — Rajneesh

especially as they did not trust one another. — Thucydides

Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought! — Napoleon Hill

I'm all about thoughtful gifts. If you put thought behind it - it could be $5 - but if there's thought behind it, I think that's what matters. — Britney Spears