Dialogues Examples Quotes & Sayings

The postmodern poststructuralists go from saying "there is no final perspective" (or "perspectives are boundless") to saying "therefore there is no advantage in any perspective over another." This leveling of perspectives is not an interrelation of all perspectives but is itself merely one particular and covertly privileged perspective (and thus ends up, as we have seen, being perfectly self-contradictory: there is no advantaged perspective except mine, which maintains that all other perspectives are not so privileged). — Ken Wilber

She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excitement to think of anything else. — Freya North

Genuine compassion makes people feel good, but it doesn't tolerate total despair or hopelessness, let alone complicity. — Erik Valeur

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record. — Daniel Johns

A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? — Nhat Hanh

You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle. — Nhat Hanh

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been — Alastair Reynolds

The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics. — Elia Suleiman

Vlad blinked, unsure where her question was coming from and, more importantly, where it was going. — Heather Brewer

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals. — Jack Kerouac