Tianxiang Ma Quotes

#1. Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

Steve Hagen

#3. Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?

George Eliot

#4. If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

Terry Pratchett

#5. According to my experience, I can testify that both riches and poverty pass away, but God abides. Whether we are rich or poor, God is.

Witness Lee

#6. ... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#7. The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

Ina May Gaskin

#8. One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.

James Kirkwood

#9. Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You think that would be possible without magic?
"Actually," replied Simon, "It is. If you watched infomercials you'd know that.

Cassandra Clare

#10. Because we all need to stop once in a while.
To think.
To evaluate.
To accept life.
So that we move on with a better perspective.

Diana Rikasari

#11. Patience is learned through waiting

E'yen A. Gardner