Between The Bridge And The River Quotes

#1. In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously.

Milan Kundera

#2. Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

Carl Van Vechten

#5. Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

Jim Rogers

#6. A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of this life ... The bowstring was released on the bridge at Eton, the arrow described its orbit, and hit the obelisk in the Ngong Hills.

Karen Blixen

#8. The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

Mohammed Naseehu Ali

#9. The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called "society" may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#10. I think of the separation between life and Paradise as a river," Mirdin said. "If there are many bridges that cross the river, should it be of great concern to God which bridge the traveler chooses?

Noah Gordon

#11. You're a beautiful wreck.

C.L.Stone

#12. Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

Raoul Vaneigem

#13. Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#14. Anyway, if you needed something really dangerous, get a gun. It's easy, it's cheap, and it's the American way.

Craig Ferguson

#15. When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

Publilius Syrus

#16. Born to lose. Live to win.

Lemmy Kilmister

#17. A rocket or a bridge. That's the only way I can really describe it. If there is a river between our sleeping bodies, this is the bridge that crosses it. ... I can just fit my fist around the base without waking him. I love it so much I want to bite it.

Lawrence Chua