Cool Zen Quotes

#1. I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

Ilona Andrews

#2. Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.

Augustine Of Hippo

#3. With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Omar N. Bradley

#4. He drank his way across the narrow sea.

George R R Martin

#5. Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Shimon Peres

#6. According to a recent poll [ ... ] 94% of Americans agree that people who work fulltime should be able to earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#7. HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. We need somebody to give us a chance.

Tony Dungy

#9. Congratulations. You took me down. And now, you have made everything that is sad, relevant.

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#10. Overcompensating or being too eager to please will lessen a man's
respect; it will give the kiss of death to his attraction,

Sherry Argov

#11. If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

Jonny Greenwood

#12. I don't give a damn about power and money per se. Really, I don't. I may be a selfish bastard, but I'm incredibly cool about shit like that. I could be a Zen saint. The one thing I do have, though, is curiosity. I want to see what I can do out there in the big, tough world.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that was Master Sewer's soul, a high-pitched anxiety fart rustled through the still leaves. If farts could talk, this one would have said, Damn coppers!

Sorin Suciu

#14. When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

Barry Schwartz

#15. On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

Thomas Carlyle

#16. I am old now. So old. My sight fades, my muscles are weak, my piss dribbles, my bones ache, and I sit in the sun and fall asleep to wake tired.

Bernard Cornwell

#17. It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself.

Charles F. Glassman

#18. I closed my eyes and wished I believed in something enough to pray to it.

George Alec Effinger

#19. But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there's a whole day ahead of us, we're almost to the mountains, it's a good day to be alive. It's this thinner air that does it. You always feel like this when you start getting into higher altitudes.

Robert M. Pirsig