Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didnt know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou.
Quotes about didnt (16 Quotes)
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majestys horse to fly within the year on the condition that if he didnt succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. 'Within a year,' the man explained later, 'the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows Maybe the horse will learn to fly.' My philosophy is like that mans. I take the long-range view.
Seven gifts my mother gave me 1. The gift of right if mamma saw a wrong she righted it. 2. The gift of friendliness making people happier than they were before 3. The gift of rose-colored vision mamma liked for the flowers, not the weeds. 4. The gift of fun mamma gave us the best gift a mother can her time. 5. The gift of understanding she was always trying to solve peoples problems or at least listen to them. 6. The gift of thoughtfulness she didnt wait for something special, she just did kind acts any time she saw the need. 7. The gift of respect when you help to inch your fellow man along on that struggle to dignity, he loves you for it. Seven gifts I could list seven hundred gifts my mother gave me. Gifts not boxed and ribboned. Not always noticed or even appreciated at the time. But a part of us. Forever.
As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didnt know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasnt.
People have been so busy relating to how I look, its a miracle I didnt become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
I didnt think that having a baby after I'd turned forty was so badonly that I had to hold her at arm's length to look at her.
A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didnt want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. 'But you were writing symphonies when you were my age.' the student protested. 'Yes, but I didnt have to ask how.'
Nature didnt make us perfect, so she did the next best thing she made us blind to our faults.
I didnt want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.
I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isnt. Its a pain. But I didnt feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didnt want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.
Lucy Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown Praying is important when you wake up at two oclock in the morning feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before. Lucy Ill just say we were out of town and I didnt have time to write anything.
Its okay that your parents arent perfect no ones are. And its okay that they didnt have any perfect children either no ones are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Dont ever give up on each other.
Its something that I have been blessed with in terms of playing the game and being able to understand the game. Not being able to exercise that gift while I was out of the game, I really found a void in myself and a hole in my soul. I said the biggest problem that I have had in that time was that I woke up and I didnt go to the gym. I have been successful in a lot of other areas but not having the ability to exercise the greatest gift that I have, which is basketball, you know I have missed it.
Spoken about Earl Nightingale by Steve King, radio announcer and good friend Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didnt learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, 'Didn't you see the stop sign' I said, 'Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read'