Florestan Fernandes Quotes & Sayings

For every woman, there is that one man who could get her to go anywhere he wanted her to go, do anything he wanted her to do - reach into her soul and turn her whole world on its ear - challenge everything she thought she believed.
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Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft. — Stephen King

The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety. — Allan Bloom

Be there is the first step, and recognizing the presence of the other is the second step. To love is to recognize; to be loved is to be recognized by the other. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn't. — Stanley Greenspan

Once you eliminate the persona that was created to survive. The real you will have permission to come forward, and enjoy the life that is meant to thrive. — Steven Cuoco

There's something in this particular practice that can teach us Cristians a powerful lesson, that we may see so vividly our own wretched state, that it's not this world we should cherish but the promise of the next. — Joseph Boyden

One cannot see one's own mistakes in matters where his interest lies. — Dada Bhagwan

I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.' — Maurice Flanagan

Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me. — Jacquelyn Frank

When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air. — Craig Brown

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it. — Alfred Austin