Seng Ts'an Quotes

#1. Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. - SENG-TS'AN

Mark Nepo

#2. There's no need to seek the truth-just put a stop to your opinions!
-SENG-TS'AN

Mark Nepo

#3. Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.

Norman Lock

#4. Italians who speak Italian should be illegal, or at least come with warning labels - may make your panties explode.

Penny Reid

#5. I'm myself, not a label.

John Brunner

#6. I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had.

Aspen Matis

#7. People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

Alice Walker

#8. You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. In the hazy afternoon light through the windows he looked beautiful and dissolute, shirt open at the collar and streaks of golden hair falling into his eyes, like some Regency buck after a long night's dancing.

Tana French

#10. Live life as an observer but not a spectator. Learn the rules, get in the game, break some rules. Live. Experience. There is no exhilaration to be achieved sitting on the bench.

Michael Holbrook

#11. The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

George Orwell

#12. To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Jose Bergamin

#13. Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

Alec Douglas-Home

#14. But what has happened is that emotional evolution has not caught up with our economics. We are still haunted by the outdated myth that women need men.

Maggie Young

#15. For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastating

George W. Bush