Disjunctures Quotes & Sayings

Be a nonbeliever, but never forget to believe in yourself. — Debasish Mridha

Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks. — Yotam Ottolenghi

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather. — Susan Sontag

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. — Bodhidharma

the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them." "Is — Veronica Roth

The salt hung on his spirit like a frost,
The dead brine melted in him like a dew
Of winter, until nothing of himself
Remained, except some starker, barer self
In a starker, barer world, in which the sun
Was not the sun because it never shone
With bland complaisance ... — Wallace Stevens

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall. — Aesop

I go through phases when I've been filming where I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I'm being filmed. — Lauren Conrad

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment. — George Nethercutt

This is theory's acute dilemma: that desire expresses itself most fully where only those absorbed in its delights and torments are present, that it triumphs most completely over other human preoccupations in places sheltered from view. Thus it is paradoxically in hiding that the secrets of desire come to light, that hegemonic impositions and their reversals, evasions, and subversions are at their most honest and active, and that the identities and disjunctures between felt passion and established culture place themselves on most vivid display. — Joan Cocks

It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same meaning derived from the same Anglo-Saxon root. — Mark Kurlansky

Gratitude is a way of reducing the importance of what somebody has done for you, — Vipin Behari Goyal

To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God. — Nhat Hanh

I won't leave you. What if you have another contraction? What if your water breaks and they rush you into the delivery room? What if there are complications?" He asked hoarsely, his eyes dilating more with each anxious question. And Theresa rolled her eyes in exasperation.
"I doubt any of those things will happen in the two minutes it would take you to leave the room and get a cup of coffee, Sandro," she sighed impatiently. — Natasha Anders

The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win — Walter Isaacson