Parliamentary famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives.

  • It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ever seen.

  • Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

  • Don't confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It's a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.

  • And all I know is, you've got to give me everything. Nothing less 'cause, you know I give you all of me.

  • You are the land. The land is you.

  • Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das Kapital over a folk-song melody, and it's a spectacular failure, in my opinion.

  • One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

  • As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind of soul and is the Buddha in some sense. This is why we can pray to it. Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material - it's earth, it's water and - with fire - it takes on form and life. In fact, what is art? Art is giving to what you create a soul. That's why it is said God is like an artist.

  • We know the problems.... and we know the solution; sustainable development. The issue is the political will