Aanavam Quotes & Sayings

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Consider also the special word they used: survivor. Something new. As long as they didn't have to say human being. It used to be refugee, but by now there was no such creature, no more refugees, only survivors. A name like a number
counted apart from the ordinary swarm. Blue digits on the arm, what difference? They don't call you a woman anyhow. Survivor. Even when your bones get melted into the grains of the earth, still they'll forget human being. Survivor and survivor and survivor; always and always. Who made up these words, parasites on the throat of suffering! — Cynthia Ozick

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. — Helen Garner

Only the vanquished remember history. — Marshall McLuhan

It seems to me it's not genetic gifts for tolerating stress or resisting pain that take individuals through extraordinary feats of endurance. When it comes to the most daring of Earth's expeditions, success always seems to come down to four factors:
One: Physical preparation. Training. You are truly the only thing you have complete control over. No stone unturned.
Two: Know everything possible about the elements, the obstacles. Knowledge is power.
Three. Surround yourself with brilliant and honorable people.
Four. Unshakeable faith. Go so far as defiance. Refuse to accept limitations and mediocrity. I won't let anybody tell me I can't touch the stars because I just might get there. And I will surely never get there if I don't keep trying. — Diana Nyad

I feel like people are not cut and dry, in real life. Some people do cheat, but it doesn't mean that they don't love. Sometimes in movies, it's one or the other. — Coley Sohn

I live in my own place. I never copied anybody, not even half. And at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself, I laugh. — Friedrich Nietzsche

And he thought of Katherine XIV, who wore a black bra and also a black everything else. — John Green

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. — John Owen

Of course I can accept you for who you are. You are someone I need to change. — Randy Glasbergen

Don't turn your back on what you love because you're scared — Lauren Kate

It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence, rather than their occurrence, which becomes highly improbable. — Ronald Fisher