Danum Water Quotes & Sayings

This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail. — Thor Heyerdahl

The sloped desert plain that lay between us and the city was like a palm stretched out for a fortuneteller to read, with its mounds and hillocks, its life lines and heart lines of dry stream beds. — Barbara Kingsolver

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. — Paulo Coelho

The key is knowing when to fight. Men are full of anger, so they have trouble with this. Women less so. — Patrick Rothfuss

I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure. — George Saunders

The stars and planets don't disappear just because it's daytime. — Tami Egonu

People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is. — E. Lockhart

About how it feels to be alone and the depth of the darkness surrounding me. Darkness as pitch black as the night of the new moon. — Haruki Murakami

The devil prince of this world, but this world don't last so long for mortal man. — Jean Rhys