Evadenta Quotes & Sayings

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. — Helen Keller

When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common. — Julie Burchill

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come. — George Bernard Shaw

Personality is lower than partiality. — Goldwin Smith

Pedestals aren't safe ... one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool. — Sanjo Jendayi

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. — Charles Dudley Warner

Read the best books first, otherwise you'll find you do not have time.
- Henry David Thoreau — Leo Tolstoy

Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken. — Tom Robbins

You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver. — Hannah Kent

Every day, I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people who touch us. When you die, it does not mean you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live. So live. Live! Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, then lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you. — Stuart Scott

But each soul is unique, each grows at its own pace, and that's how it must be ... a bit at a time. — Jennifer DeLucy

But if you grow up in a society which is rotten to the core, where you can cheerfully ignore the rules if you have power and status, where your superiors will screw you over if they happen to need a scapegoat . . . you wind up with very little respect for those rules. — Christopher G. Nuttall

The woman who died night after night
and her dying was a long goodbye,
a train that never left. — Octavio Paz

Wedding song (reprise)
But you and I, through burning plains,
through darkness of the earth,
affirm the world, its people,
the heavens that gave them birth,
the breath that passes between us,
this new home where we stand,
and all those things made larger by
the vows between woman and man. — Margaret Weis

I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic. — Monique Lhuillier