Tim Ward Quotations

Here's a bad luck story for you. On the day the tickets went on sale I had 10 tickets for the Friday and another 10 for the Monday of the final Test selected in the form on my computer screen all ready to be paid for. I then entered my credit card details pressed send - and The Oval's website crashed. I spent the next few hours trying to get back in to the site to no avail. When I finally got in the tickets had all gone - bah!

I think it will make it easier for me with him there, too. It would give me a chance to learn from him and I know he'd be an unlimited resource of knowledge and experience that I could always count on.

I think the jury was in a position to judge the credibility of the testimony.

Time will surely measure the strength of this recruiting class, but experience tells me that this is one of the strongest recruiting classes we have ever brought into our program. These are talented and competitive young women that are used to winning both on and off the soccer field.

This summer I learned that every one of us in the military are there for one purpose: to serve and protect our country. It definitely gave me a real sense of pride and accomplishment, not only for myself, but also for my dad.

I'm just glad that we're finished with dual meets for this year. This is the first time since 1998 that we've beaten everyone in the league. That was one of our goals this year. These guys deserve it, they've worked hard all year for it.

Good to see you in a better mood than last week. I reckon the tension must have been getting to you, which is understandable. I also understand this your last OBO - and let's hope you sign off on a high.

This is the third year I've been here, and each year it seems to get a little bigger. It's a great place to bring the family,

Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.

I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.

If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a set of memes that we adopt because of congruence with what we think we know. Science demands skepticism.

The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This way they become attached to something that doesn't exist. Enlightenment isn't a thing you get.

A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to them.' What does that say about the monkhood? He can't tolerate people with 'dust in their eyes.' All that these monks have developed here is a safe little self-centred world which they call holy because villagers bow down to them. Living in a forest and wearing a robe doesn't make you better than anybody else.

You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall.