Issara Collection Quotes & Sayings

People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward. — Jaggi Vasudev

The shaping of a golem, to [Joe] was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was the expression of a yearning that a few magic words and an artful hand might produce something
one poor, dumb, powerful thing
exempt from the crushing strictures, from the ills, cruelties, and inevitable failures of the greater Creation. It was the voicing of a vain wish, when you got down to it, to escape. To slip, like the Escapist, free of the entangling chain of reality and the straitjacket of physical laws. — Michael Chabon

Here a man can live. All right, it's a 'special' camp. So what? Does it bother you to wear a number? They don't weigh anything, those numbers. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT? — Eddie Murphy

And, dying, he declined to die. — Jack London

I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country. — Bill Maher