Bastani Quotes & Sayings

After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there. — Adrian McKinty

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust. — Myrtle Reed

In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn. — Frank Perdue

The cockroach
who is dying
and the woman
who is blind
agree
not to notice
each other's shame. — Audre Lorde

The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us. — Mike Yaconelli

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. — Khalil Gibran

But when a man puts on maturity and invulnerability, it seems that he necessarily becomes indifferent to many things that gave him joy. — Patrick O'Brian

Every bit of you, Lass, that's what I want... — Terry Spear

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? — Edward Abbey

The locust has no king
Just noise and hard language
They talk me over — David Eugene Edwards

Never, in any case, is any effort of true attention lost. It is always completely effective on the spiritual plane, and therefore also, in addition, on the inferior plane of the intelligence, for all spiritual light enlightens the intelligence. — Simone Weil

Evans understood that if Nakamura chose, it would be indiscriminately and their number would include the sickest - and perhaps most likely the sickest, because they were of least use to Nakamura - and that all of them would die. If, on the other hand, he, Dorrigo, chose, he could pick the fittest, the ones he thought had the best chance of living. And most would die anyway. That was his choice: to refuse to help the agent of death, or to be his servant. — Richard Flanagan