Ishaani Quotes & Sayings

Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You are who you are when nobody's watching. — Stephen Fry

To say that a sentient being is not harmed by death denies that the being has the very interest that sentience serves to perpetuate. It would be analogous to saying that a being with eyes does not have an interest in continuing to see or is not harmed by being made blind. The Jains of India expressed it well long ago: All beings are fond of life, like pleasure, hate pain, shun destruction, like life, long to live. To all life is dear. — Gary L. Francione

The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people. — Louis Menand

Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain. — Teresa Medeiros

We can't stay in Afghanistan forever. — James F. Amos

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums. — Jessa Crispin

The US exports democracy, hence there being very little left for Americans — Dean Cavanagh

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience. — Pete McCarthy

For over 35 years, I've been making charitable donations anonymously. — Jerry Perenchio

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who know that he is going under in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. — James Baldwin

We need to keep a constant watch over our mind and learn to distinguish between the beneficial and harmful thoughts that are arising moment by moment. Those who are able to do this are truly wise. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill. — Amit Kalantri

One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil — F Scott Fitzgerald

It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it. — Blaise Pascal