Thubten Chodron Quotes

#1. The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.

Janis Karpinski

#2. Life wasn't just any one thing. It was a combination... a melting pot of emotions, a mix of salty and sweet.

Cambria Hebert

#3. I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor.

Howard Warren Buffett

#4. She spent her idle time conceiving of musicals that would never be. It was the only medium that could properly express our true madness and hypocrisy---our collective ability to sit in a theater watching lunatics sing nonsense while the world outside burns.

Dave Eggers

#5. At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.

Hilda Solis

#6. If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast.

Charles Dickens

#7. The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

Martin Delany

#9. We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.

Thubten Chodron

#10. When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Ari Fleischer

#11. How? How did you know ... ?
What, that my wife can do anything? Isn't it obvious?

Brian K. Vaughan

#12. No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side.

Russell Pearce

#13. I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.

ASAP Ferg