U L To Iu L Conversion Quotes

#1. Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Abraham Verghese

#2. One's attention has to penetrate the chaotic activity, pass through all the layers of subtle thought, and at last emerge into silence. This is the basic process of transcending.

Deepak Chopra

#3. But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it. Heuristics

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.

Sakyong Mipham

#5. The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard.

Buzz Osborne

#6. And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

Oscar Wilde

#7. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

Miguel De Cervantes

#8. We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

Erik Erikson

#9. I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don't.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.

Max Tundra

#11. Pressure is only what you make of it and what you put on yourself.

Marcus Giles

#12. I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

Earl Warren

#13. Nothing got more serious than allowing a tortoise to crawl across your kitchen floor.

J. Lynn

#14. Why must holy places be dark places?

C.S. Lewis