Achmad Tahir Quotes & Sayings

I finished grating a root and dropped the stub into a jar on the desk. Bloodroot is aptly named; the scientific name is Sanguinaria, and the juice is red, acrid, and sticky. The bowl in my lap was full of oozy, moist shavings, and my hands looked as though I had been disemboweling small animals. — Diana Gabaldon

Half the pretty women in London smoke cigarettes. Personally I prefer the other half. mrs. — Oscar Wilde

There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid. — Caroline Knapp

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either. — Erich Fromm

Keep reading. Things go downhill fast." Because they always do when you fuck people you're not supposed to. — Mia Storm

The best we can do, according to Bradley, is to say things that are 'not intellectually corrigible' - further progress is only possible through a synthesis of thought and feeling, which, when achieved, will lead to our saying nothing. Ideas have degrees of truth, greater or less according to the stage at which they come in the dialectic. — Bertrand Russell

Love did nothing but break down defenses, and I could not afford that. — Kiera Cass

Oh no, honey, I can't read little things like letters. I read big things like men. — Sojourner Truth

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. — Leonhard Euler