Buddhadharma Quarterly Quotes

#1. Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

Patti LaBelle

#2. I needed a piece of a story, something real and full of life and blood and breath and heartache, something that someone had lived through, a piece of wisdom earned the hard way. That's why telling our stories is so important.

Shauna Niequist

#3. Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

Barbara Jordan

#4. Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

Hannah Arendt

#5. I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

J.K. Simmons

#6. If you worry about falling down, and never 'up,' the sky will remain forever out of reach.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. Junior told me once that he was very impressed by Jimi Hendrix, by the way he was very wild, and yet he was very controlled. He knew where everything was going in a solo, and he (Junior), I think tries for the same effect, and I think he hits it virtually every time.

Mitch Mitchell

#8. This mark men and women set on pleasure and pain, Prendick, is the mark of the beast upon them, the mark of the beast from which they came. Pain! Pain and pleasure - they are for us, only so long as we wriggle in the dust ...

H.G.Wells

#9. Everyone needs a place to let go and unwind from life, mine happens to be where pencil meets paper.

Brandy Nacole

#10. The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

Vaclav Klaus

#11. It is never too late to be who you want to be.

George Eliot