Oryoki Quotes

#1. We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.

Pema Chodron

#2. I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

Simon Cowell

#3. Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

Henry Beard

#4. My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother.

Dick Van Patten

#5. The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man

Alasdair MacIntyre

#6. Humans were so ridiculously fragile. They could die tripping over a damn chair leg. Car accidents could kill them. Colds turned into pneumonia and killed people. Mental note: pick up Vitamin C before school tomorrow and force it down Kat's throat.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

Ban Ki-moon

#8. I was always opinionated.

Kim Novak

#9. Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.

Alison Pick

#10. Share & enjoy life, the universe & everything

Douglas Adams

#11. National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Edward Sapir

#12. I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn't be nearly as great as they are if it wasn't for them having a real group.

Britt Daniel

#13. Israel ... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.

Henri Poincare

#15. The problem with unintended consequences isn't with the consequences, it's with the unintended. Just because you didn't' intend for something to happen doesn't mean you didn't want it to.

Charles Yu