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Goodness Quotes (page 414)

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. In our scriptures (Samyuktagama Sutra, volume 33), it is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. The best horse will run slow and fast, right and left, at the driver's will, before it sees the shadow of the whip; the second best will run as well as the first one does, just before the whip reaches its skin; the third... Shunryu Suzuki
B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon. Sylvia Day
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare. George Orwell
The judge watched him. He began to point out various men in the room and to ask if these men were here for a good time or if indeed they knew why they were here at all. Everybody dont have to have a reason to be someplace. That’s so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference. Cormac McCarthy
Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all the good stuff was use to grease propeller shafts. A florid and cloying scent is needed to conceal its unspeakable mineral and animal origins. It is the smell of War. Neal Stephenson
E. B. White quote: "I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good..."
I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else E. B. White
Agatha Christie quote: "What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,..."
What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life, and for all the love that has been given to me. Agatha Christie
Pat Conroy quote: "I was the only person in the world who thought it was a..."
I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood. Pat Conroy
No, I can't stop for sonnets; my mother is sitting up. I'll look you up tomorrow, sometime or other, and do for goodness' sake try and realise that you're a pestilential scourge, or your find yourself in a most awful fix. Good-night! Kenneth Grahame
He was a good guy, my old man: simple, old-fashioned. Physically, he was built like a feather-weight, and he wore these thick, black Ronnie Barker glasses. He would say to me, Ozzy Osbourne
They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a highly industrialized technology that could maintain high production and rapid transportation of goods. However vast the distances separating settlements, they held to the ideal of complex organicism. Ursula K. Le Guin
Neil Gaiman quote: "We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But..."
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things. Neil Gaiman
Carrie Fisher quote: "No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of..."
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away. Carrie Fisher
All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.” “What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I’ll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.” “Good old Watson!(...) Arthur Conan Doyle
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. Anne Frank

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