There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Ab...
She felt vulnerable and alone and had a sense that a great opportunity was slipping through her fingers. Once again, she felt that life was not treating her as it treated other people: it gave her every chance to achieve something, and just when she ...
The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them." Th...
To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling ...
Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects. This awakens the idea th...
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not ...
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situat...
C-3PO: Where could they be? [R2 beeps at him] C-3PO: Use the comlink? Oh my! I forgot, I turned it off. [over the comlink] C-3PO: Are you there sir? Luke Skywalker: 3PO? C-3PO: We've had some problems... Luke Skywalker: [interrupting] Will you shut u...
There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
There is a certain pleasure in weeping
It is certain because it is impossible.
It is certain because it is possible.
The only certain freedom's in departure.
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.
I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.
It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.
I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.
