Badlav Sansthan Quotes & Sayings

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted. — Bono

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe. — Mark Twain

So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing,
and put your lips to the world.
And live
your life. — Mary Oliver

Jules lips quivered, and I feared she was about to cry. Then she asked, "He bit off more than he could chew, didn't he?" She made a motion as if she was biting into a tough piece of steak.
Gabriella's lips sealed shut as she tried to hide her grin, though she failed at it when Andrew asked, "Was he eating?" He turned desperately to Gabriella, confused.
Jules wasn't about to cry, she was trying not to laugh! She giggled then, the sound tinkling and odd in the outlandish setting.
Andrew straightened and shook his head at Gabriella. "Did you see him eat? — Laura Kreitzer

She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer. — Anna Godbersen

In truth, however, the continual coming into existence of new beings and the annihilation of already existing ones is to be regarded as an illusion produced by a contrivance of two lenses (brain-functions) through which alone we can see anything at all: they are called space and time, and in their interpenetration causality. For everything we perceive under these conditions is merely phenomenon; we do not know what things are like in themselves, i.e. independently of our perception of them. This is the actual kernel of the Kantian philosophy. — Arthur Schopenhauer

And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't. — Ellen Hopkins

Just now they kissed, with India coming up close on her toes to see if she could tell yet what there was about a kiss. — Eudora Welty

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand. — Hassan Nasrallah

Tell me my heart beats a war drum
that my eyes are not just armies
but my spine
is a harpoon. — Buddy Wakefield

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear. — El-P

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else. — Michael Madsen