Abhiruchi Quotes & Sayings

[B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears. — Rebecca Solnit

And besides, the thing about committing yourself to a lie is that mostly you end up in twice the trouble, 'cause truth is like a whirlwind and you can't keep it in a box. — Sarah Monette

The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ... — Marcel Proust

Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't. — Margaret Cho

World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It's being fulfilled every day round about us. — Billy Graham

You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it. — Amy Dickinson

The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running. — Grete Waitz

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes. — Jim Crace

The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms. — Michael Chabon

You could also hear the other, some young soldier speaking in all bloody innocence, saying, 'All that's just a load, man. We're here to kill gooks. Period.' Which wasn't at all true of me. I was there to watch. — Michael Herr

The blessed damozel lean'd out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters still'd at even;
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. — Madame Roland