Jayshri Desai Quotes & Sayings

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before. — James Otis

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all? — Chuck Palahniuk

It occurred to me that some people couldn't handle too much love. That everyone loves as they're able, but more, they are loved as they're able. Some are indomitable and open, like an ocean, but others aren't made to tread those waves, cannot stay afloat those waters. We embrace the kind of love we can manage. Less can be the right measure. But when it isn't, we must learn we cannot squeeze a mountain into a room with a glass ceiling. Or everything shatters. — Jennifer DeLucy

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, THOU ART A PRIEST FOR EVER after the order of Melchizedek" (Psalm 110:4). — David Alsobrook

There is no such thing as a lover's oath. — Plato

Life's too short to constantly be worrying about everything that could go wrong. — Jessica Sorensen

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back. — Oscar Wilde

When the cities are gone and all the ruckus has died away. when sunflowers push up through the concrete and asphalt of the forgotten interstate freeways. when the Kremlin & the Pentagon are turned into nursing homes for generals, presidents, & other such shit heads. when the glass-aluminum sky scraper tombs of Phoenix, AZ barely show above the sand dunes. why then, by God, maybe free men & wild women on horses can roam the sagebrush canyonlands in freedom ... and dance all night to the music of fiddles! banjos! steel guitars! by the light of a reborn moon! — Edward Abbey

My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers. — Joyce Banda

Maybe we'll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely. — Carl Safina

Did it?" said Harry in surprise. "Sounded like a load of waffle to me." "There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle," said Hermione grimly. — J.K. Rowling

We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor. — Mark Pellegrino

Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive. — Sharon Salzberg

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong