Bahiana Regular Quotes & Sayings

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Without the darkness, how can we ever hope to understand the light? — Terri Cheney

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. — Robert Graves

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions. — Anonymous

Every day we must turn again to God's acts of salvation, so that we can again move forward ... . Faith and obedience live on remembrance and repetition. Remembrance becomes the power of the present because of the living God who once acted for me and who reminds me of that today. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. — Kate Atkinson

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality? — Alan Watts

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. — Charles Lamb

The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up. — Augusten Burroughs

Thinking, Fast and Slow, mentioned above, and Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational. One of the handful of books that provides advice on making decisions better is Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, which was written for "choice architects" in business and government who construct decision systems such as retirement plans or organ-donation policies. It has been used to improve government policies in the United States, Great Britain, and other countries. — Chip Heath

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. — George C. Marshall

Travel is a fools paradise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world. — Darryl Pinckney

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets ... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things. — Michelle Rodriguez

The Economic Problem ... the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle. — John Maynard Keynes