Minket Lepcha Quotes

#1. Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with that Old World toffee-nosed attitude: The United States of America's got no culture, not deep down.

Jonathan Gash

#2. The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.

Peter Higgs

#3. You can't defeat an individual that never quits.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#4. However, if you are just making a show of your spiritual accomplishments in order to get money, for example, that is hypocrisy.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that.

Scott Aukerman

#6. Frank meditates?"
She grinned. "How'd you think he got that laid-back? We've got the only Zen security guard in London. Only he's really a butterfly dreaming he's a security guard.

Mike Carey

#7. If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#8. An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment with its roots in his loins and its flowers in his mind.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Abraham Cowley

#10. I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out.

Walter Isaacson

#11. To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

Robert Byrd

#12. You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

Steven Erikson

#13. I don't have a license to kill, but I don't have orders not to kill in the course of my duties, either. Which realization I find extremely disturbing;

Charles Stross

#14. As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide who's right and who's wrong. Life doesn't need to know the "right" way to go because it's going there anyway.

Adyashanti