Fenix Rising Quotes & Sayings

Frederick Ward thought novels immoral and had been known to leave the room rather than subject himself to "bohemian" opinions. — Donald McCaig

It isn't a coincidence that the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat happened after September 11. Gujarat is also one place where the toxic waste of the World Trade Center is being dumped right now. This waste is being dumped in Gujarat, and then taken of to Ludhiana and places like that to be recycled. I think it's quite a metaphor. The demonization of Muslims has also been given legitimacy by the world's superpower, by the emperor himself. We are at a stage where democracy - this corrupted, scandalous version of democracy - is the problem. So much of what politicians do is with an eye on elections. Wars are fought as election campaigns. In India, Muslims are killed as part of election campaigns. In 1984, after the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi, the Congress Party won, hands down. We must ask ourselves very serious questions about this particular brand of democracy. — Arundhati Roy

I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road. — Buddy Rice

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. — Gillian Flynn

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it. — Vanna Bonta

In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. — Richard Saul Wurman

Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of. — Kenny Smith

News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is. — Eliza Griswold