Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

Alan Watts

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Alan Moore

With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

Alan Hovhaness

There is nothing like practice.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.

Chogyam Trungpa

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Chogyam Trungpa

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

David Korten

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

David Shuster

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Bernhard Goetz

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Bernhard Schlink

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

Ralph Brown

We have some criminals out there. That's why we have lights and security people at Wal-Mart.

Andy Yu

Working together, we will show the criminals that there will be no safe haven for their crimes.

John Deane

The plan is to deny criminals the use of the road.

Bruce Springsteen

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Daniel Handler

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Sergei Ivanov

Six of the criminals were eliminated, ... From the reports on the ground, all of the hostages were released.

Charles Baudelaire

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Jane Austen

I am all astonishment.

Charles Darwin

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Eugene Ionesco

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Cassandra Clare

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Theodore Roethke

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

Thaddeus Stevens

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

Enid Bagnold

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.