Valitutti Blue Quotes & Sayings

For a while I hoped that Buddhism Without Beliefs might stimulate more public debate and inquiry among Buddhists about these issues, but this did not happen. Instead, it revealed a fault line in the nascent Western Buddhist community between traditionalists, for whom such doctrines are non-negotiable truths, and liberals, like myself, who tend to see them more as contingent products of historical circumstance. — Stephen Batchelor

My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite. — M.H. Abrams

I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age. — Carmen Dell'Orefice

The extraordinary craving for someone faithful and devoted, which unaccountably and suddenly came over him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense — Barack Obama

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself. — Timothy Leary

I believe in serendipity, but I also believe there are times when you have to be the one who lines up everything so it can fall into place. — Susan Stroman

There is no perfection in human things, only in the world of Forms. — Jo Walton

But your life is yours, singular and sacred, and you should be with the person who makes it feel that way every blessed second you live it. — Kiera Cass

Then I level my smile at Simon, and this smile is one I do feel, and it's definitely an activity, too - the activity of fist suppression. — Carolyn Crane

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. — Malcolm Turnbull

If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail! — Chris Rock