Shonin Quotes

#1. There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'

James Mercer

#2. Before I had a child, I had goals. And I still have to accomplish those goals, but now that I have a child, I have more goals to accomplish. So I can't waste time.

Ciara

#3. Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

Augustine Of Hippo

#4. We cry survivor to survivor.

Colleen Hoover

#5. I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

Norman Lock

#6. Apparently if you want to get a boy to like you, you go sort of mysterious and icy and cool. That's what my cousin said and she has loads of boyfriends and snogging-type experiences.

Louise Rennison

#7. The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

Carlos Castaneda

#8. At places like Chelsea, often the garden displays are so big and grand that you'd never be able to have them at home.

Anton Du Beke

#9. I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.

Chaim Potok

#10. HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]

J: People do.

HC: Yes, perhaps. If you're doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when it's cold despair, it's different. I've nothing to live for, you see.

~Hilary Craven; Jessop

Agatha Christie

#11. Although I too am within Amida's grasp,
Passions obstruct my eyes and I cannot see him;
Nevertheless, great compassion is untiring and illumines me always.

Shinran Shonin

#12. Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

Cesar Romero

#13. Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.

William Shatner

#14. You don't have to be naked to look naked. You just have to think naked.

Gypsy Rose Lee

#15. Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.

Andrew P. Harris