Ctis Inc Quotes & Sayings

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [ ... ] — Gary Shteyngart

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces. — Baron De Montesquieu

She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out. A voice played the notes inside her. This, it said, is your accordion. — Markus Zusak

She wanted to stay focused, one thing following sensibly upon another. There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past — Don DeLillo

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. — Samuel Johnson

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. — Mary Kay Ash

And men who accept the burdens of regret, whether in respect of watercolors or of anything else, are not the stuff that men of the world are made of. — Soseki Natsume

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time. — Mike Huckabee

She touched him, placing her hand over his curled fingers, straightening them so that they were palm to palm, then she interlaced her fingers with his. Her fingertips were icy. A silent, dangerous thrill coursed through him. He wanted to pull her atop him and show her what awaited a foolish young woman who slipped into a man's bedroom in the dead of the night after having devoured him all evening with those dark, intense eyes of hers, setting his blood to simmer over three long hours. — Sherry Thomas

There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework. — Autre Ne Veut

Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it ... our psychological beings resonate with it. — Bob Brown

When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization one will find that He who resides in one's heart, resides in the hearts of others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast. — Sarada Devi