Arunava Bhattacharya Quotes & Sayings

Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. — Yann Martel

Our conceptual maps tend to lack a way to conceive the immanence of violence and power in the ideals and practices that have become dominant in the Western tradition. Mass death has tended to be conceived as something accidental, something outside the ordinary run of events. I think the difficulty in coming to terms with the peculiarities of the Western will to power has to do with the absence of a central metaphor capable of describing the link between consumption and death. The consumptive mentality has in many respects been normalized, as has the violence that underpins and is the effect of systems of universal judgment. Certainly the aestheticization of difference is coextensive with the romance with violence that has become so characteristic of contemporary Western society. — Deborah Root

Eternity is the best policy. — Kurt Schwitters

That perhaps is at the core of Wicca--it is a joyous union with nature. The earth is a manifestation of divine energy. Wicca's temples are flower-splashed meadows, forests, beaches, and deserts. When a Wicca is outdoors, she or he is actually surrounded by sanctity, much as is a Christian when entering a church or cathedral. — Scott Cunningham

Life is an X-rated soap opera. — John Irving

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find. — Otto Penzler

It's not stalking if you don't follow them home, right? — Laini Taylor

A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous. — Irene Hannon

You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body. — Kamala Harris

True, I cannot see the stars scattered like gold dust in the heavens, but stars just as bright shine in my soul. — Helen Keller

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated. — John Desmond Bernal

This man roared his part of the darkness, stifled her in shadows. He belonged in the black velvet of night and the mysterious twilight grays of evening. — Daisy Banks

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs. — Johnny Vegas

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. — Islom Karimov

Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her. — Louie Giglio