Hannaneh Safvat Quotes & Sayings

We can't take back who we've been in the past, Charlie. But we can control who we are in the present. — Colleen Hoover

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves. — R.D. Laing

I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned. — Ani DiFranco

Sometimes
she knows this from her own life
to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased — Bertrand Russell

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. — Elizabeth Kostova

Behind our wise words lie rare jewels;
behind our reckless ones, bombs. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work, if you're trying to say they have existed for hundreds of years, unknown. — Kelley Armstrong

Donald Goellnicht. The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1984, — Stephen Cope

I just love it when I hear a little commotion, someone leaving. When I see those doors in the back ... — George Carlin

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that? — Emmanuel Lubezki