Upekkha Lecture Quotes & Sayings

An individual gospel might have been designed as the gospel for a particular community, but when it was included in a collection with other writings of the same genre, the individual writings were viewed as complementary one to another, each presenting a distinctive aspect of the ministry of Jesus. — F.F. Bruce

I shall go and sit under a tree ... . Which tree, Mma? ... Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one. — Alexander McCall Smith

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built. — Nicholas Meyer

Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you. — Jean Webster

Life is an empty dream. — Robert Browning

If you masturbate, would that make you an incubator?
I eyed him sideways, struggling not to laugh at his nonplussed expression or the sharp bark of mock outrage that followed. — Allison Pang

Beautiful are the words, that can express the innermost thoughts. — Alok Jagawat

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears. — Euripides

taking the money. She made it sound like more — Danielle Steel

We exhale together, then inhale together, exhale, inhale, in and out, out and in, until not even the trees remember what happened in the woods yesterday, until Mom's and Dad's voices turn from mad to music, until we're not only one age, but one complete and whole person. — Jandy Nelson

The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude.

Listening to the Internet without being confident you've found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea. — Jeff Alexander

How often, when I have told you that all men are false and perjury alike, and grow tired of us as soon as ever they have had their wicked wills of us, how often have you sworn you would never forsake me? — Henry Fielding

The idea that marriage has to be for all time - that I don't understand. — Brad Pitt

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president. — Rudy Giuliani

Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away. — Sophocles