Resident Alien Quotes

#1. I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States. At last, I am a Tibetan in Tibet, a Khampa in Kham, albeit as a tourist in my occupied and tethered country.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#2. But her arms were probably the best of her. They were brown and round and good.

J.D. Salinger

#3. She realized with a sort of depressed relief that she had no close friend to call, to tell them not to worry about her.

Catherine Coulter

#4. This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. The way I see it, he's all we have left of
her.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

Jacques Diouf

#7. It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

Emanuel Celler

#8. Meditation is not doing something. But you cannot take a jump immediately into non-doing. So I suggest that you make your doing total. Move into it so deeply, and so totally that suddenly the doing drops, and you alone are left, just existing.

Rajneesh

#9. I'm not one of those people who's saying "I'm going to set up a production company", because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.

Nicholas Hoult

#10. Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Herman Melville

#11. The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

David Richo

#12. It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown ... it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe ... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

George R R Martin

#13. Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.

Rajneesh

#15. At one end of the national spectrum is white, shining peace - that city-on-a-hill concept. At the other end is black, raging, savage war at the foot of that hill. The space between is the gray zone where the haze of diplomacy and combat meet and bleed into one another. That's where the CIA works.

Jamie Smith