Distinctav Quotes & Sayings

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know? — Jennifer Jason Leigh

You see the same plain landscape day after day, and then one day, perhaps it's the play of light or the time of year, you find it beautiful and other landscapes at fault. So it must be with fashion. Ordinary judgement falls into abeyance and something else, some bewitchment, takes over. How else to explain the appeal of garments that in a few years look so ridiculous? — Elizabeth Hay

A generous person is a person who doesn't only give money but also contributes his service to humanity. — Debasish Mridha

Are dreams perhaps the soul's memories of the body, — Jose Saramago

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down. — Swami Vivekananda

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. — Kathy Griffin

FLOWERS The flowers of the field are the children of sun's affection and nature's love; and the children of men are the flowers of love and compassion. BW-ST-122 — Kahlil Gibran

There is also an awakening to beauty, because when you're really young you don't have that concept or opinion in place, so you make your own discoveries. It's different now with technology, and the constant bombardment of images. — Elle Fanning

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. — James Inhofe

The people living in darkness have not yet see the light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Only after making intelligent and thorough use of his human powers had he trusted himself to the divine will, thereby clarifying for us the meaning of at-tawakkul ala Allah (reliance on God, trusting oneself to God): responsibly exercising all the qualities (intellectual, spiritual, psychological, sentimental, etc.) each one of us has been granted and humbly remembering that beyond what is humanly possible, God alone makes things happen. Indeed, this teaching is the exact opposite of the temptation of fatalism: God will act only after humans have, at their own level, sought out and exhausted all the potentialities of action. That is the profound meaning of this Quranic verse: "Verily never will God change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves."1 — Tariq Ramadan

The basement smelled damp, like mold and minerals, as she started down the creaking, wooden stairs. Her mother had stopped screaming the moment the door opened. Everything was very quiet as Tana descended, the scratch of her shoes on the wood loud in her ears. Her foot hesitated on the last step. Then something knocked her down. — Holly Black