Famous Quotes & Sayings

APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

Or you can e-mail a compressed version of the image as an attachment for quick viewing, but keep the high-resolution version on the camera.

There's a different emotional attachment to Office than to Windows. The operating system is like the road, but Office is the car you drive. People have emotional attachments to their cars.

Beverly Sills

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Anton Corbijn

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

This emotional attachment to Maya shall not go with you; it is false to fall in love with it.

Sathya Baba

This attachment is not God's gift. Bliss is God's gift. God's gift is Peace. God's gift is Truth. That is the God's gift. All the rest are passing clouds.

Stephen Hill

They were in a lot better shape than I expected, ... They obviously cared for these pets a great deal. It is a good testament to their attachment to their dogs. I think their outcome will be fine. They are going to do well.

Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme.

This is big problem because a very large number of corporations use Lotus Notes. When users receive an e-mail with an attachment, all they have to do is click on the attachment to read it, and their systems are vulnerable to a remote attack.

Christopher Lasch

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

George Washington

Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

George Washington

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

THE selfishness fouling your love is veiling divinity from your vision. What is the reason for the selfishness which is veiling divinity from us? It is simply our attachment to the body; It is the weakness of our mind and our enslavement to our senses.

As always, people should be smart about opening any attachment or downloading files, and never open attachments from unknown sources.

George Washington

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it

Jason Mraz

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

Sathya Baba

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

The beauty of our project is that we are taking something historical, something that has an emotional attachment to the community, and giving it rebirth. The sense of neighborhood and community at the Bethlehem Steel site is a good thing. We intend to be good neighbors, and we intend to create economic rejuvenation.

Suing a client can take years. Instead, for about $2,000, you may be able to get a writ of attachment within 60 days. It will bring the company back to the bargaining table.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

He became like a loving friend, ... No, I feel in some ways he's like my father now. I wish I could have known him; I feel there's a void in my life that I never did know him. It's strange having an attachment to this dead man, but . . .

Can you eat a meal with a single finger? When the five fingers work in unison, the stomach is filled in five minutes! So, no attachment should be developed; no wish is to be welcomed, nothing is to be sought for; and no defeat is to be taken to heart, without solving deep into the consequences.

It's funny to us -- we have no attachment to the couch. The couch is so incongruous with the show. One thing that's been made really clear over the last few years is that it's not a talk show. We don't know what it is. It's a thing unto itself.

Chris Williams

It's the first of it's type, because simply activating the e-mail that is infected will launch the virus, ... It totally bypasses the previous philosophy of 'don't open that attachment if you don't know what it is.'

Jonathan Haidt

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

Ellie Goulding

I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place.

Lisa Alther

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Linda Hogan

It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.

Peace Pilgrim

You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within.