Bua Bhatiji Quotes & Sayings

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge. — David Brainerd

What happens to the people who became writers because yakking and tweeting and bragging felt to them like intolerably shallow forms of social engagement? What happens to the people who want to communicate in depth, individual to individual, in the quiet and permanence of the printed word, and who were shaped by their love of writers who wrote when publication still assured some kind of quality control and literary reputations were more than a matter of self-promotional decibel levels? — Jonathan Franzen

War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness. — Bertrand Russell

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go? — Pico Iyer

Actually, the world is not complex. It is the task of trying to figure it out with words or numbers that is complex. — Alan W. Watts

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself. — Ashley Banjo

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. — Aldous Huxley

The True's towns, with colorful names like Dry Bend, Jerusalem's Lot, Oree, and Sidewinder, were safe havens, but they never stayed in those places for long; mostly they were migratory. — Stephen King

I liked that sentence then and I like that sentence now but then I had no way of making any sense of it, I could only keep it in my mind's eye, where it rested and grew in the embryo that would become my imagination — Jamaica Kincaid

And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate. — Steven Hatfill

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. — J.M. Coetzee

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate. — Gustave Flaubert