Aldona Wos Quotes & Sayings

My nose, thank god, had conked out by then. Noses are merciful that way. They will report that something smells awful. If the owner of a nose stays around anyway, the nose concludes that the smell isn't so bad after all. It shuts itself off, deferring to superior wisdom. — Kurt Vonnegut

Forests have secrets,' he said gently. 'It's practically what they're for. To hide things. To separate one world from another. — Catherynne M Valente

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons. — Adlai Stevenson I

The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient. — Will Durant

Always find sense in your actions — Sunday Adelaja

The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others — Nilakanta Sri Ram

Rage, or something as equally dense and seething, was hanging from every chandelier, resentment woven into thick carpets padding the room, hatred flickering underneath every lampshade. The floor bathed in a creepy shadow, a particular darkness that had seeped into the walls, and right now was rolling across my converse so I couldn't see them. Absolute darkness. — Kami Garcia

I realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror before its pure perfect realization that there is no wall and no horror just Transcendental Empty Kissable Milk Light of Everlasting Eternity's true and perfectly empty nature. — Jack Kerouac

The unity of a great era is generally an illusion. — Harold Bloom

I only believe in those who can still blush. — Nelson Rodrigues

I loved you more than loved allowed — Lang Leav

Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon ... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.
What did he die of?
Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded! — Oscar Wilde