Abhay Web Quotes & Sayings

The act of writing itself isn't outrageous. And the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem to have freedom you become a servant. Your main issue is to get promoted to the next thing. Or get invited to a picnic. Or get tenure. Or get laid. — Gerald Stern

It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so what seems to them unnecessary, from a racial point of view, becomes necessary to us, who have had to labor all along under the disadvantage of being scattered without a racial aim or purpose. — Marcus Garvey

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. — George Orwell

All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant. — Henry David Thoreau

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference ... between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope. — William James

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the mind and spirit. — David Jeremiah

I don't even know what the word strange means anymore ... that's really strange. — Pete Hautman

How can we bear this? I asked. (He took the hat from my hands and placed it gently on my head.) Because we have to. Because you will know my heart is somewhere in the world, beating for you. — Beatriz Williams

The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it — David Dickinson