There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.
Mean Quotes That Will Leave You Speechless - page 77
It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.
Rosamund Pike
The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.
When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.
Billy Bob Thornton
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
Alice Meynell
Of course I believe that I am very approachable, I am friendly, I care about my family, I care about my community, people believe that I am a strong and determined leader.
Matthew Coon Come
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
Donald Miller
Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?
James Nachtwey
No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again
Much serious thought has been devoted to the subject of chocolate: What does chocolate mean? Is the pursuit of chocolate a right or a privilege? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?
Sandra Boynton
There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?
I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.
Stephen Baldwin
We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.
Laurie Halse Anderson
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?
Rick Perry
If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.
Laurence Sterne
Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Robert Casey
