Wandelingen Quotes & Sayings

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion. — Pico Iyer

Those words are not a magical formula. They're not going to open my heart to you. — Charlaine Harris

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists? — Rosie O'Donnell

I'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after. — Jens Voigt

I did something rather innovative that my competitors didn't like: I took out a full-page advertisement in the Yellow Pages that listed an office on the east side of Cincinnati, and another office on the west side, while every other heating/air-conditioning company had only one location and one phone number. I was the citywide company. In fact, our 'westside office' was just an answering service taking telephone message. From the start we appeared to be a big company. — Kevin Harrington

Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them. — Simon R. Green

There's a difference between what I would like to have been and what I would have been. I always fantasized about being a reforming judge or prison governor (I think that the UK penal system is a disgrace) - but it's fantasy. — Mary Beard

Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored. — Nate Berkus

Traveling at night toward the stars, I thought yet again how very far away they were, and how you could travel your whole lifetime and never reach even the closest one. But even if you knew you couldn't have something, it didn't stop you wanting it. I wondered if Kate was to be my star, and I'd spend my life gazing upon her but never reaching her. — Kenneth Oppel

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good? — Laurell K. Hamilton

The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions. — Dalai Lama