Rigpa Organization Quotes

#1. Waited for my brother and didn't talk to anybody and nobody talked to her, because she'd always been one of those quiet, semi-retarded girls who you couldn't talk to without being dragged into a whirlpool of dumb stories.

Junot Diaz

#2. Don't roll your eyes. It punctures my dramatic moment. I want my dramatic moment unpunctured.

Cassandra Clare

#3. People tend to be exquisitely precise when describing pain. We don't just say it hurts, we say it throbs or aches; it's a burning, wrenching, gnawing sensation; it's sharp or dull; it chafes; it stings. But where pain specifies, joy generalizes. It was great! we say. Terrific! Beautiful! Fantastic!

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#4. Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

Bruce Hutchison

#5. When we find out Who He (Jesus) is, then we find out who we are and it forever settles what we believe.

Yvette R. Dempster

#6. She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah.

Jon McGregor

#7. It's okay to bribe people with books, right?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#8. He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there in a tail-coat.

Charles Dickens