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Sage is cleansing and sacred. -- Pink
The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete. -- Laozi
What about you, Sage? I know we don't have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist spa this weekend? -- Richelle Mead
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. -- Publilius Syrus
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. -- Baltasar Gracian
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by. -- Zhuangzi
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. -- Susan Sontag
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile -- Homer
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. -- Edward Gibbon
Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. -- Nichiren
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. -- Laura Bush
Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. -- Colley Cibber
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest. -- Laozi
Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored. -- Mooji
If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large. -- Alberto Villoldo
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. -- John Adams
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way. -- Bodhidharma
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. -- Lao Tzu
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I knew a Sage once. Trashy little thing. -- Rebecca
Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage, -- Richelle Mead
It's Kahlua, Sage. Packed with sugar and coffee flavor. -- Richelle Mead
He (the Sage) does not show off, therefore he shines. -- Laozi
Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor. -- Richelle Mead
Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored. -- Laozi
Sage." He laughed. "I'm into anything, so long as you're with me. -- Richelle Mead
Who knows more about male weakness: you or me? Use my knowledge, Sage. -- Richelle Mead
You're killing me here, Sage!" "I'm not doing anything." "Exactly my point. -- Richelle Mead
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Sage, aren't you guys supposed to have uniforms? This looks like what you usually wear. -- Richelle Mead
Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him. -- Laozi
The Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine. -- Ogwo David Emenike
Nice blouse, Sage," Adrian told me, deadpan. "It really brings out the khaki in your pants. -- Richelle Mead
Who are you?" I asked. "You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours." ~Clea / Sage, pg. 105 -- Hilary Duff
You're a terrible liar, Sage, but I'm still touched you'd attempt it for my sake. A for effort. -- Richelle Mead
But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy." "Already crazy about you, Sage. -- Richelle Mead
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back. -- Janeane Garofalo
..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy. -- Richelle Mead
What's purple mean?" Adrian put his hand on the door. "Gotta go, Sage. Dont want to keep Dorothy waiting -- Richelle Mead
But perhaps the best part of all was that I, Sydney Katherine Sage, guilty of constantly analyzing the world around me, well, I stopped thinking. -- Richelle Mead
The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure. -- Laozi
Speaking of Sonya...I was thinking of something earlier. Something Wolfe said." "Why, Adrian. Were you paying attention after all?" "Don't start,Sage," he warned.(p 211) -- Richelle Mead
The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth. -- Laozi
He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you. -- Richelle Mead
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You're a solid person, Sage. You're easy on the eyes, if a little skinny, and your ability to memorize useless information is going to totally hook in some guy. -- Richelle Mead
If someone had asked who could stage the best intervention with a crazy woman who had formerly been an undead monster, Sydney Sage would have been my last guess. -- Richelle Mead
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary -- Richelle Mead
The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding. -- Lie Yukou
Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond -- Hilary Duff
The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us! -- Bill Vaughan
PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics. Its protagonist, Sage, is unique, magical, and haunting. -- Kate Wilhelm
Sage?" Adrian lightly touched my arm, and I jumped at the feel of his fingertips against my skin. "You okay?" "I don't know," I said softly. "I just thought of something crazy." "Welcome to my world. -- Richelle Mead
Pleased to meet you." Sage said, offering his hand. "The pleasure is all mine," Rayna Purred. "Unless ofcourse, it's all Clea's which is even better." Sage smiled and might have even blushed a bit, which was highly entertaining. -- Hilary Duff
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Sage," he said. "What are you wearing?" I sighed and stared down at the dress. "I know. It's red. Don't start. I'm tired of hearing about it." "Funny," he said. "I don't think I could ever get tired of looking at it. -- Richelle Mead
Look, Sage. I don't know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is something I've got a lot of experience with." I think he mean photosynthesis, but I didn't correct him. "Use my knowledge. Don't let it go to waste. -- Richelle Mead
Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored thee in thy majesty of visible creation, And searched into thy hidden and mysterious ways As Poet, as Philosopher, as Sage? -- Humphry Davy
I don't suppose you offered to help?" "Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor." He knocked another ball into a hole. "You want to play?" "What? With you?" "No, with Clarence." He sighed at my dumbfounded look. "Yes, of course with me. -- Richelle Mead
Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm." There were a few moments of silence. "Sage, I've been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder? -- Richelle Mead
Sorry, Sage. Last I checked, you aren't an expert in social matters..." "At least I take action. You? You let the world go by without you. You have no spine. You don't fight back." "You don't know the first thing about me, Adrian Ivashkov. I fight back plenty. -- Richelle Mead
Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her lyrics and melodies-- poignant, tender and tough. These are stories from the heart that will lift you up and carry you to places you had never dreamed. -- Judy Collins
If feeling anxious about anything Dr Bachs night time rescue remedy is great. Sometimes a bath before bed helps. Burning Lavender or Clary Sage in the room before retiring. Try not to work on my computer very late and then bed straight after. Getting enough exercise definitely helps sleep. -- Rachel Ryan
Really, Sage? A date?" I sighed. "Yes, Adrian. A date." "A real date. Not, like, doing homework together," he added. "I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a movie that's not part of a school assignment. Or about something boring." "A real date. -- Richelle Mead
The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice. -- Sarah Lacy
He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man. -- James Beattie
The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. -- Frank Waters
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. -- Sinclair Lewis
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. -- Mason Cooley
I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think. -- Jude Law
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. -- J. M. Coetzee
'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years. -- Dhani Harrison
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. -- Xun Zi
Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties. -- Michael Sims
Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage. -- Maximillian Degenerez
The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period. -- Jason Chaffetz
Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage. -- Tom Douglas
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest. -- Laozi
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips. -- Utah Phillips
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. -- James Wolcott
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience. -- Martin Filler
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. -- J. M. Coetzee
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. -- Lao Tzu
I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my experiences. And so this experience being added to that, I - I want to live extraordinary experiences. And when I give advice to people, I want it to be sage advice. -- Jason Mraz
One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I think about Mark Twain's hypothetical take on current events several times a week. -- Paul Di Filippo
One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time. -- Marc Andreessen
It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does. -- Tom Rath
The sage acts by doing nothing. -- Laozi
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. -- Laozi
The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade. -- Laozi
The jester is brother to the sage. -- Arthur Koestler
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. -- Henry David Thoreau
The Tao of the sage is work without effort. -- Laozi
The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies. -- Laozi
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching) -- Robert Baohm
The sage's Way is to act and not to contend. -- Laozi
From sage on the stage to guide on the side. -- Alison King
A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone. -- Laozi
The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty. -- Laozi
The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting. -- Laozi
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness. -- Laozi
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt. -- Zhuangzi
The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness. -- Laozi
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself. -- Publilius Syrus
What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult. -- Laozi
The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness. -- Laozi
Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage. -- Thomas Campbell
The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees. -- Laozi
The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world. -- Laozi
Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage. -- Criss Jami
Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage. -- Tim Ward
The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved. -- Laozi
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it. -- Laozi
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. -- Edward Dahlberg
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage. -- Thomas Hardy
The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great. -- Laozi

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