Dua Ka Asar Quotes & Sayings

Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually merely a simplified, almost insulting judgment of the book by its cover - or rather by the name and origin of its author - an act of discrimination if we want to say it in a more provoking way, but at the least an act of ignorance and false empathy. — Sasa Stanisic

Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely. — William James

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people. — Matthew Perry

If anything can go wrong it will. — Edward A. Murphy Jr.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself. — Jean-Paul Sartre

You know we've all sinned a lot against science
so we really ought to be as available as an apple
on a bough
pleasant thought fresh air free love cross-pollenization
oh oh god how I'd love to dream let alone sleep — Frank O'Hara

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind. — Gal Gadot

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito. — Christopher Moore

Saying sorry does not make you look small - it makes you look big. — Alexander McCall Smith

it's never good to pass on your fears to the ones you love, you might keep them from discovery, and discovery is what life's all about." Later — Nancy Baker

The journey into wholeness means we have to learn to respect the other voice that speaks within us. It means to pay attention to our emotions, thoughts, dreams and fantasies even when they're unpleasant and objectionable. — Bud Harris

A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. ( ... ) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances. — Anthony Giddens

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. — Wayne Coyne