Nikaya Quotes

#1. Therefore, mobilize vigor to attain what is unattained, to master what is unmastered, to realize what is unrealized. In this way your taking to the spiritual life will not be barren, but fruitful and ever-growing. (Samyutta Nikaya II.29) How

Anonymous

#2. I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Gertrude Stein

#3. I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

Scott MacDonald

#4. The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

Damon Wayans

#5. The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.

Ralph Gibson

#6. Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not going to match that. At a certain point, you have to accept that.

Hugh Dancy

#7. The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Got anything to eat?" I asked.

"You know where the gas station is," said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother.

Susan Juby

#9. Maybe someday I'll be his and he'll be mine. And space or time won't matter because we were meant to be.

But I won't hold my breath. Life doesn't usually work out the way we hope.

Amber L. Johnson

#10. I'm a huge LeBron James fan. I love The Heat. He's an incredible basketball player.

Ashley Bell

#11. Communication is really a two-way process with listenining being as important as speaking. Enhancing one's listening skills is therefore as important as enhancing one's speaking skills.

Vishwas Chavan

#12. Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.

Aunguttara Nikaya

#13. Polly had been washing up when she'd heard the men talking late one night, and it's a poor woman who can't eavesdrop while making a noise at the same time.

Terry Pratchett

#14. People can generally be classified into two groups: the mediocre realists and the mediocre dreamers. You clearly belong to the latter. Your fate is and will always be the fate of a dreamer.

Haruki Murakami

#15. I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Kimberley Nixon