Monk Quote by Umberto Eco Download Open image “I felt like poisoning a monk.” — Umberto Eco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Monk Motivational Poisoning
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“I slowly came to recognize individual monks within the crowds of interchangeable orange robes and shaved heads. There were flirtatious and daring monks who… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba,… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
