Ogyen Trinley Quotes

#1. Friendship is one friend betraying another friend to a third friend. With a fond friendly smile. The greater the betrayal, the greater the intimacy - the greater the friendship.

Craig Raine

#2. I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Richard Linklater

#3. There is nothing outside the text

Jacques Derrida

#4. For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.

Patrick Wilson

#5. Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

Billy Graham

#6. There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance.

Harlan Coben

#7. Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including - most significantly - how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it.

Ogyen Trinley Dorje

#8. I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

#9. I looked briefly up from my notes. I was surrounded by hearts, sectioned and preserved. Hearts with holes. Hearts with leaking valves or thickened walls. Hearts with narrow or transposed aortas. I closed my eyes.

Claire Holden Rothman

#10. As always, we sit on the narrow steps that lead from the Old Bridge down to the sandbar. A pale silver moon trembles on the face of the water. A wooden boat lashed to a post modulates the sound of the current. Sitting with her, I feel her warm against my arm.

Haruki Murakami

#11. No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Lemony Snicket

#12. Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

Orhan Pamuk

#13. No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

Paul Bryant

#14. You are the agent of power in your sex life, even if what you want is to relinquish your power and agency while you're having sex. You can take that power back at any moment.
Which means, of course, that you always had it.

Cheryl Strayed