Jaleh Taghipour Quotes

#1. If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Tom Robbins

#2. every person's biggest trauma is still that person's biggest trauma. There is no relativity within the realm of one's own subconscious.

Nick Alexander

#3. The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

Lauren Oliver

#4. Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Jerry Pournelle

#5. You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#6. Does every woman at some point in her life wander through the sleeping house, looking in at her husband and children, and wonder what she's doing here, in this particular life?

Nancy Thayer

#7. I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#8. It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

H.L. Mencken

#9. Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#10. How strange it would now - like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ?

John Marsden

#11. The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

Todd Solondz