Walsham Alexandra Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes people fast for days. ... When the worst man has fasted for twenty days, he becomes quite gentle. Fasting and torturing themselves have been practiced by people all over the world. Krishna's idea is that this is all nonsense. He says that the senses will for the moment recede from the man who tortures himself, but will emerge again with twenty times more [power]. ... What should you do? The idea is to be natural - no asceticism. Go on, work, only mind that you are not attached. The will can never be fixed strongly in the man who has not learnt and practiced the secret of non-attachment. — Swami Vivekananda

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides. — Warren E. Burger

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples ... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood and attested. — Pope Benedict XVI

I drink a lot of coffee. — Lena Headey

I consider my wife and children in all things; yet, I must consider Amara also. — A.H. Septimius

Dear Hope, I NEVER thought Id see the day when two of your daily e-mails sandwiched a message from none other than PAUL PARLIPIANO. My crush to end all crushes! Gay man of my dreams! OOOH! — Megan McCafferty

I'm not a big fan of working out. Living in Los Angeles makes it much easier for me; I don't ever have an excuse not to be outside. — Dylan Penn

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. — Christopher Morley

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. — Tom Wolfe

I hadn't won in Europe for two years, although I won twice in America last year, but it's great to come back and win. You never want to go a year without a win. It's very special to win and I'm really happy the way I did it. — Padraig Harrington

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe. — Michio Kaku

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. — Herodotus

I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Human beings don't work like this in China. Time goes slower there. Here we have to hurry, feed the hungry children before we're too old to work. I feel like a mother cat hunting for its kittens. She has to find them fast because in a few hours she will forget how to count or that she had any kittens at all. I can't sleep in this country because it doesn't shut down for the night. Factories, canneries, restaurants - always somebody somewhere working through the night. It never gets done all at once here. Time was different in China. One year lasted as long as my total time here; one evening so long, you could visit your women friends, drink tea, and play cards at each house, and it would still be twilight. It even got boring, nothing to do but fan ourselves. Here midnight comes and the floor's not swept, the ironing's not ready, the money's not made. I would be still young if we lived in China. (1983: 98) — Maxine Hong Kingston

It is difficult to describe the moment when you realize the person you are is not the same as the person you must become to face the challenges before you. — Barbra Annino