Japanese Monk Sayings

#1. Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

Nita Lowey

#2. One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq,.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#3. You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

Charlize Theron

#4. I've loved you forever, I tell him.
The sun rises, rests, shines in his face and he almost smiles, almost can't meet my eyes.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.

William Hazlitt

#6. Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.

Timothy Leary

#7. Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

Bob Dylan

#8. During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.

Steven Rattner

#9. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace it as passionately as she.

Thomm Quackenbush

#11. Lord, Your Word says that he who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe (Prov. 28:26). I've come to realize that I cannot trust in myself. My safety is in learning to trust in You, Lord.

Beth Moore

#12. Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

Ryokan

#13. I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.

Bonnie Tyler