Attainers Quotes

#1. How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

Gautama Buddha

#2. Because America, being a democracy, could not strike first, but had to wait - wait in instant readiness - until she was actually attacked.

E.E. "Doc" Smith

#3. Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

Ibrahim Babangida

#4. Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

Claude Monet

#5. Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Donald A. Norman

#6. There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a woman. And that's how humans reproduced. And I thought, 'How could I really understand that?'

William T. Vollmann

#7. Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

Matt Chandler

#9. If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone's got a reason for what they do, even if it's a reason that they're not proud of.

Hugh Jackman

#10. If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.

Soichiro Honda

#11. The sense of form in New Mexico is for me one of the profoundest, most original, and most beautiful I have personally experienced. It must be 'learned.' . . . It is not a country of light on things. It is a country of things in light.

Marsden Hartley

#12. The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

Coleman Barks

#13. I had been in love with Ariella. I remembered what she'd meant to me, what I'd felt for her then ...
... and what I didn't feel for her now.

Julie Kagawa

#14. The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner.

Erin Morgenstern

#15. But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

Christopher Pike

#16. Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Gregory Nunn