Berberian Ain Quotes & Sayings

What kind of a place is Expectations?" inquired Milo, unable to see the humor and feeling very doubtful of the little man's sanity.
"Good question, good question," he exclaimed. "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not. — Norton Juster

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory. — Katherine Center

If you made up a city like this, no one would have believed you. It seemed more like myth than reality- a whole metropolis built up around an industry that recorded dreams on giant screens, a city bordered by an ocean and a desert and snowcapped mountains. And right through the urban sprawl were canyons full of flowers, wild animals and secrets. — Francesca Lia Block

When the image of Nelson Mandela may be more familiar to us than the face of our next-door neighbour, something has changed in the nature of our everyday experience. — Anthony Giddens

It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.' — Jamie Dornan

I like
the memories
because they remind me
I haven't always been
this girl,
constantly
mad or scared
or confused. — Lisa Schroeder

The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them. — Laurence Gonzales

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution. — George Papandreou

Democracy and religion stand or fall together. Where democracy has been destroyed, religion has been doomed. Where religion has been trampled down, democracy has ceased to exist ... Tyrants have come and have had their day and then have passed while religion has survived them all. — Herbert H. Lehman

The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool - his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character. — Charles Alexander Eastman

Anger precedes hate, while love vicariously hangs in the balance. — Lorraine Gokul

It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it. — Lena Dunham

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done. — Aristotle.

So is there a cure?' I asked.
'It's not a disease,' he explained. 'It doesn't need curing. It's just how you are — John Elder Robison