Vidui Quotes

#1. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

Kevin Rudd

#2. I want to remake the whole world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

Karen Cushman

#3. Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

Evgeny Morozov

#5. I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.

Hannibal Buress

#6. I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.

Judy Davis

#7. I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

Ice-T

#8. Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

Jules Renard

#9. At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.

Gloria Gaynor

#10. A pox on all meads!

Christopher Paolini

#11. Alamut could be reached only astride eagles.

Umberto Eco

#12. If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

Ajahn Chah

#13. You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff.

Jacqueline Bisset