Xilai Hotel Quotes

#1. His mind, cool, alert, watched it sink there with a sort of vague concern at the absurdity of the occupation, till it rested at the bottom, deep down, where our unexpressed longings lie.

Joseph Conrad

#2. At the heart of science is accepting only that truth which can be proven. At the heart of faith is define Truth, at its core, as being unprovable.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. Meditation is the best means of elongating life

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#4. I am not looking for a relationship right now. I have no interest in putting my time or effort into another person, nor do I need another person to put energy into me, OK? Because that's what granola bars are for.

Lilly Singh

#5. Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.

Sathya Sai Baba

#6. Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

Emile Zola

#7. People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

Erik Weihenmayer

#8. In classical music, love is based on bitin'
imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.

Todd Boyd

#9. Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

Mark Twain

#10. One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."
Mike Mankoff

Mike Mankoff

#11. And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief.

Jewel

#12. I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King's Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?

George R R Martin

#13. When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans."
"But you are an American."
"Incurably so, it seems.

John Green

#15. I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.

Joan Rivers