Divakaruni The Disappearance Quotes & Sayings

You realize how small you are in the grand scheme of things. We're not really the rulers of this planet, we're just tenants, and it's the small stuff, the bacteria and insects and the plant matter that really runs it all. Even the big stuff, the nasty, scary stuff, it's all pretty small in the grand scheme of things, isn't it? — Wildbow

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present. — Jose Parla

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. — Laura Whitcomb

In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond. — Marc Guggenheim

We knock a time or two at the gate of mercy, and as no friendly messenger opens the door, we go our ways. Too many prayers are like boys' runaway knocks, given, and then the giver is away before the door can be opened. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise. — L. Frank Baum

The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays. — Peter Watts

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community. — Hal Sparks

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land. — Arlo Guthrie

You're certain, then, that no human affection can outlast a five-year absence?" "It can, undoubtedly," replied the Chinese, "but only as a fragrance whose melancholy we may enjoy. — James Hilton

Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity. — Daniel Goleman

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. — Charles De Lint

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. — Studs Terkel

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that? — Augustine Of Hippo

Fears have been raised that in their enthusiasm scientists might inadvertently create a black hole or even something called "strange quarks," which could, theoretically, interact with other subatomic particles and propagate uncontrollably. If you are reading this, that hasn't happened. Finding — Bill Bryson