Zazengi Quotes & Sayings

When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for "cookie." Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z. — Ji Lee

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends. — Hannibal

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform. — Lester B. Pearson

My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles. — Patrick Soon-Shiong

The politician dispenses wealth which other men have produced, and we say he is "compassionate," while the businessman who produces the wealth is dismissed as "greedy" and "materialistic. — R.W. Grant

When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use of contraceptives is to be condemned. — David O. McKay

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi') — Dogen

Go to American Apparel; they have all of the colors of socks. — Theophilus London

'Movie 43' is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever. — Peter Farrelly

When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form. — John O'Donohue

Love bade me welcome;
yet my soul drew back,
Guiltie of dust and sin. — George Herbert

The jury had persuaded themselves that he was decent, because they had wanted to think that in his shoes they would have been decent too. They had no idea how decency, loyalty, courage, how it all shrivelled away when one was frightened. — Sarah Waters

Everything you've ever believed is probably a lie. — Robert Shea

What do you call it when you end up right where you're supposed to be?"
Foster simply replies, "The perfect chemistry. — Renee Ericson