Dhiresh Jeyarajah Quotes & Sayings

My father looked as if I'd just gutted him, and I felt a pang of regret - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings - it was payback for the way his choices had irrevocably damaged my own. — Ernest Cline

There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather be
but for some reason I still feel ... homesick. — Andrew Peterson

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life. — Sebastian Junger

So, you invite a wild rabbit living in Italy to a party on the island of Crete. What's it supposed to do, swim there? Its little tux would get wet. — Rick Riordan

Beyond, pines hold sermons. — Boris Pasternak

Look up and see the madness
organized in the stars. — Kelli Russell Agodon

[K]nowing one's fate never made a whit of difference, except it made the fated a tad more anxious. — Gene Doucette

Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers. — Bryant McGill

I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going. — Alan Lightman

I have no way of telling what I miss
I am the only one who misses it — W.S. Merwin

The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. — Tina Brown

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet! — Vladimir Lenin

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control. — Judith Sargent Murray

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out. — Gena Showalter

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. — Peter Arnett