Monk Quotes - Page 15

• You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

  Chris d'Lacey

  Evil, Killing, Easier

  Chris d'Lacey (2011). “Fire Star”, p.340, Scholastic Inc.

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• Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

  Matthew Shipp

  Music, Names, Perfect

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• What will you do now?' I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.' No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?' Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.

  David Gemmell

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Bells, Never Forget, Longing

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• A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

  Jena Malone

  Friendship, Religious, Buddhist

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• When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

  Steve Lacy

  Horny, Tunes, Fit

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• Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

  Kathleen Norris

  World, Poet

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• Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because its stories are such compelling reading Of course not...but there is a reason. There is a reason Christian monks spend lifetimes attempting to decipher the Bible. There is a reason that Jewish mystics and Kabbalists pore over the Old Testament. And that reason Robert is that there exist powerful secrets hidden in the pages of this ancient book...a vast collection of untapped wisdom waiting to be unveiled.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Powerful, Book

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• With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.

  Hermann Hesse

  Peace, Children, Light

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.25, Om Books International

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• The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Boys, Thinking, America

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• Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

  Bai Juyi

  Autumn, Dark, Winter

  Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (1)”

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• Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Lakes, Cities

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

  Charles Bukowski

  Believe, Wine, Play

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.182, Canongate Books

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• For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Wine, Men

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• I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Definitions, Jazz

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• Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Two, Crowns, Guilty

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• This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Generosity, Giving, Alchemist

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• In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Opportunity, Offering

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• Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

  Gautama Buddha

  Feelings, Perception, Sound

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• When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

  Russell Brand

  Different, Married, Persons

  "Uh-oh! Russell Brand 'makes a sex joke about Katy Perry'" by Leanne Bayley, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 6, 2013.

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• The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!" "They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!" "Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate.

  Gordon Korman

  Crazy, Men, Silence

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• I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

  Greta Garbo

  Cake, Soap, Pot

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The more you know the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

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• The solitary monk who shook the world
  From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump
  Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips
  In peals of truth.

  Robert Montgomery

  Challenges, Religion, Lips

  Robert Montgomery (1854). “The Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery ...”, p.186

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