Para-paraan Quotes

#1. The best jury of your peers that you'll ever find is ... well, you. Only you know what you're capable of and what you want to be.

Richelle Mead

#2. I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

Jack Nicholson

#3. But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante's Para- diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now

Bertrand Russell

#4. While we must always strive to grow beyond those who come before us, we must revere and learn from those that broke the ground originally, endeavor to honor their legacy, and then continue in our own vision.

Alexandra Silber

#5. There's a para-phrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky ... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all.

Colin Firth

#6. No es buen momento para un terremoto," Lupe used to say. "It's not a good moment for an earthquake.

John Irving

#7. Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

Denis Waitley

#8. Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone's heart. He is Nirguna (One who is without form or its attributes). He is Nirakaar (Has no shape or form), and He is the Para-Brahman (Supreme transcendental Consciousness) that is all pervading. Believe in this. This is Rudra Puja

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#9. one ignored the mundane at one's peril. After

John Connolly

#10. To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time.

Hollis Frampton

#11. The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul ... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.

Rajneesh

#12. I really
wish I had enjoyed it more.

Jenny Han

#13. Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

#14. Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

Victoria Glendinning

#15. Rules didn't do that thing with its tongue he liked, and they definitely didn't keep him warm at night.

Nulli Para Ora

#16. Begum Para, did I say? Not the Begum Para? The saucy heroine of the silver screen? And why not? This remarkable lady had dropped in from Pakistan to play the part of my grandmother in Shubhadarshini's serial Ek Tha Rusty, based on stores of my childhood.

Ruskin Bond

#17. Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.

Veronica Roth

#18. Structuring our feelings helps add reality to them. In fact, para-doxically, many of the invalidating things that people do are attempts to structure us. But the time for structuring is after validation. After our feelings have been validated, we can understand them and put them into perspective.

Henry Cloud

#19. Every immortal has their kryptonite. No one said immortality was the best thing ever, most would call it a curse.

Venus Morales

#20. Maybe he's got a plan for proving that he was a victim of unethical research practices. Who knows? I can't begin to guess his objectives but I can promise you that there is nothing you or I or modern para-pharmaceuticals can do for him. We can't fix the monsters.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#21. There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.

Flora Thompson

#22. Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica.

To be intelligent, one must start young.

Maria Luisa Bombal

#23. So how do we get from there to a pattern of experience that can stand for the whole of postcolonial Latin America? Ah, our para dox again. The solution, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves.

Thomas C. Foster

#24. As a kid, Vix had had some warped idea that grownup meant having a job and living on your own. It meant no one could tell you what to eat, or what to wear, or how to behave. It meant that it was okay to have sex with guys. What a joke!

Judy Blume

#25. Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war.

J.B. Salsbury

#26. Si Vis Pacem, Para Iustitiam: In order to have peace, you must first have justice.

C.G. Cooper

#27. Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

Edward Carey

#28. The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

Byron Katie

#29. I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one.
[Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.]

Camilo Jose Cela