That Was Zen

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. - Steven Brust

Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it. - Tamora Pierce

Monarchy: Used to open doors in a Royal Palace. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom. - Ruth Gordon

I just love Chinese food. My favorite dish is number 27. - Clement Attlee

Worship is exclusionary. You cannot compromise on worship. - Ravi Zacharias

In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives. - Ann Voskamp

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. - JRR Tolkien

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out. - Ho Chi Minh

If you can't sleep do not count the sheep, worship the Shepherd. - Unknown

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon. - Pat Oliphant

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. - Novalis

Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. - Anthony Bourdain

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. - Marilu Henner

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. - B.K. Iyengar

Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. - Carol Pearson

Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer. - Donald Trump

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams

Five main components of worship: the Lord's Supper, teaching, prayer, praise, and giving. - Ravi Zacharias

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

Like a bull into a china closet. Like in that picture, "The Prince and The Porpoise." - Archie Bunker

Sometimes you cannot worship from your strength but you must choose to worship from your faith. - Unknown

We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. - Tom Robbins

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them. - P.D. Ouspensky

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. - W H Auden

I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French - surprised everybody, it was a Chinese restaurant. - Tommy Cooper

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer. - Ravi Zacharias

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde

When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. - Donald Trump

Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God. - Ravi Zacharias

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. - Neil Gaiman

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? - George Carlin

She's so fat she's my two best friends. She wears stretch caftans. She's got more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. - Joan Rivers

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. - W H Auden

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. - John F Kennedy

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G K Chesterton