Doe Quotes - Page 414

He dinna act like an Alpha." "He does in some areas.

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

Be personal, and original. Try to work clean. Stay away from topical material, as it does not allow you to craft it to make it better for later. And always remember that it is the fans who will make you or break you.

Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.

Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.

I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.

The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather as a network of relations, and that, ultimately, there are no parts at all in this interconnected web. Whatever we call a part is merely a pattern that has some stability and therefore captures our attention.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in its purest formlessness.

God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.

The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.