Farhad Zerak Quotes & Sayings

Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference. — Barack Obama

Thank You. Life is short and TBR lists are long. I know time is precious and I thank you for spending yours with this book. — Katja Millay

Why the hell don't people understand there are some things you don't talk about? You keep it to yourself so you hurt fewer people. You're supposed to pay with guilt. Guilt is penance. — Erika Swyler

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man. — E.W. Howe

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing. — Annette Bening

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. — Huey Newton

We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species. — Amit Goswami

The soul in man is greater than his fate ... — Sri Aurobindo

The more the "Autism World" is invested in politics it will continue to implode and more voices will be lost as a result — Paul Isaacs

This should be one of the basic attitudes - not to think about what the other is doing. That is his life. If he decides to live it that way, that is his business. Who are you even to have an opinion about it? Even to have an opinion means that you are ready to interfere, you have already interfered. — Osho

In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox in the orchard, as doves and redwings came and went on the warm wind, the leaves dancing, the clouds flying ... the child was not observing; he was at rest in the very center of the universe, a part of things, unaware of endings and beginning, still in unison with the primordial nature of creation, letting all light and phenomena pour through. — Peter Matthiessen

Words spoken in the heat of the moment may be forgiven; words preserved for ever on parchment may overreach their mark once passion has abated. — Susan Kay

Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship. — Daniel Klein

The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you! — Elizabeth Strout