Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Salzberg

Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.

Hayan Saad

She has become an accomplished leader of chants. She will never chant for Mubarak.

Granth Sahib

Meeting with the True Guru, one comes to know; by this meeting, one comes to chant the Name.

Ngawang Tashi

I am very excited and also surprised at being nominated for a Grammy. I hope the world rocks with me chanting the hymns.

Kevin Anderson

I did a sort of Gregorian chant yesterday. Nobody really told me what they thought of that. Today it was more of a robotic thing.

Justin Pogge

I can't explain how it feels with that many people chanting your name. It is such a great feeling.

John Pettit

If they start chanting something, then we'll try to match it with a song,

Ione Skye

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

Richard Morris

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

Charles Stross

We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!

Rashad Williams

When I'm doing things, I don't look at the color of somebody's skin. I help people because of the situation they're in, or because they're in a time of need.

Alex Levine

We set it up with the color varied and the dishes angled for variety,

Charles Fuller

What we called ourselves in 1944 - colored or Negro - we don't do anymore. Where we are now is not where we were then. It's very important for young people to understand that.

Dave Douglas

Black has always been a staple for me, but that's not really a good favorite color. I've been really into browns lately.

David Milne

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.

Cary Grant

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

Cameron Russell

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

Jonathan Swift

Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly

William Wordsworth

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.

Kate Christensen

Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.

Eric Idle

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

Sophie Hannah

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

Lewis Thomas

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.

William Carman

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, That lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.

Denise Lewis

I was more than contented with the international award, but before I had recovered from that shock I was up there again.

Juvenal

No man's contented just so much to sin - As you may license him

Jamie Muir

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

William Cullen Bryant

Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.

Jamie Muir

Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again.

William Shakespeare

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frostsFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

Shawn Amos

In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants.

Mal Moore

The human tragedy as a result of Katrina is staggering, and I know Crimson Tide fans will do what they can to help those who are not able to immediately return to their homes.

Michel Faber

The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.

Kevin Campbell

We want to provide an educational model where students can operate on a smaller scale and not fall between the cracks. We want to make sure the teachers know the students on a deeper level, their passions and the things they want to pursue in the future. That makes education relevant for them.

Donald Driver

We have to get ourselves out of the hole, ... Right now, we are in the deep hole.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.

Terry Hoeppner

There are a lot of dimensions to Lance Bennett. He's deep and wide.

Marty Stuart

When I did suit back up and put the Superlatives together, I had a lot of trouble in my mind following ( The Pilgrim ). I was doing a session one day with Cash, and I said, 'You've made lots of brilliantly deep records that weren't on anybody's radar except yours. I'm having a tough time following this Pilgrim thing.' He said, 'The only thing I can tell you is that your next record has to come out of your heart like that one did, or it's just a wasted work. Once you make a record like that, you can't go back and live with yourself.' And he was right.

Azim Premji

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Terry Hayes

On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.

Nancy Buirski

What we do is we see it deeper and we see it more focused.

Enya

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I never really dyed my hair anything significant from my natural hair color.

Dean Inge

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Peter Steele

To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, I'm going to have to stop doing this. It's gonna look ridiculous. I don't wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old.

Marcus Aurelius

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Jane Fonda

My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.

Tove Lo

We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.

C. S. Lewis

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

Charles Spurgeon

Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more.

Brandon Sanderson

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.

Barbara Kingsolver

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

Bear Bryant

The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Dan T. Cathy

The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.

Granth Sahib

There is none other than the lord at all

Charles Wesley

And all things as they change proclaim The Lord eternally the same.

Sathya Baba

Meditate on what you read and think of God.

Granth Sahib

I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice to You. I meditate on You continually. The village was in ruins, but You have re-populated it. I am a sacrifice to You.

Monica Johnson

Don't meditate on what you don't have, and remind yourself what you do have.

Carla Hall

When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.

Valerie June

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

Mike Love

I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.

Kelsang Gyatso

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

Atharva Veda

He established the many worlds and skies. The soul is illumined with His Light; no one can revoke His Blessing. Meditate, meditate in remembrance on God, and become fearless.

Granth Sahib

You send out the call, Lord, to those who meditate on Your Name.

Ridley Scott

When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Mia Masten

We did look at the site. It doesn't meet our criteria.

John Key

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

Darius Kasparaitis

screaming at us, telling us what to do like the 'Full Metal Jacket' movie.

Brian Posehn

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

Chris Hillman

Underlying everything is a country-folk foundation. You're not going to see us do a Metallica or Snoop Dogg song.

Gang Four

Metal is what it is, when it is what it always was.

Rocco Buttiglione

metal detectors, X-rays, the usual sort of things.

Greg Perry

We received three proposals regarding the construction of the metal building.

Adam Rich

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

Corey Taylor

The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.

Corey Taylor

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Richard G. Scott

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

Diane von Furstenberg

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Cher Lloyd

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.