Thaumaturgic Shrine Quotes

#1. To train the mind, you must exercise the patience and determination it takes to shape that steel.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. I don't drive an Escalade; I've never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.

Romany Malco

#3. It's not the breed that makes a good companion. All dogs are great companions.

Cesar Millan

#4. I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice.
'It's her own funeral, you know,' said Sir Lulworth; 'it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains.' ("Laura")

Saki

#5. I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?

James K. Morrow

#6. O, Love's but a dance,
Where Time plays the fiddle!
See the couples advance -
O, Love's but a dance!
A whisper, a glance,
"Shall we twirl down the middle?"
O, Love's but a dance,
Where Time plays the fiddle!

Henry Austin Dobson

#7. If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

Joseph Story

#8. Or does she still come here simply because it's become a habit, like a scar etched onto her body, one that she can't help but think about, scratch at, pick at, all the while hoping it will miraculously heal one day?

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#9. Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

Jennifer Lopez