Grappige Paas Quotes & Sayings

And now, restored to the status of daughter in her own home, Amina began to feel the emotions of other people's food seeping into her - because Reverend Mother doled out the curries and meatballs of intransigence, dishes imbued with the personality of their creator; Amina ate the fish salans of stubbornness and the birianis of determination. And, although Mary's pickles had a partially counteractive effect - since she had stirred into them the guilt of her heart, and the fear of discovery, so that, good as they tasted, they had the power of making those who ate them subject to nameless uncertainties and dreams of accusing fingers - the diet provided by Reverend Mother filled Amina with a kind of rage, and even produced slight signs of improvements in her defeated husband. — Salman Rushdie

The vision seemed to enter the house with me - the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart - the heart of a conquering darkness. — Joseph Conrad

If you agree that bringing someone into existence can be bad for that person and if you also accept the argument that bringing someone into existence can't be good for that person, then this leads to a strange conclusion: being born could harm you but it couldn't help you. — Peter Singer

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one ... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that. — Assata Shakur

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. — Salvador Dali

Atheism is humanism mediated by the suppression of religion, communism is humanism mediated by
the suppression of private property. — Albert Camus

When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping. — Dan Fogelberg

Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us. — Benjamin Whichcote

I was gazing at that full bushel of apples when she made her stunning, preposterous announcement, that I have possibly never recovered from. 'Jim it's over, and the kids and I have decided you should go. — Gabrielle Hamilton

Living a life filled with deprivation and working from sunrise to sunset from your earliest years isn't to anybody's taste. — Maria Duenas