Jietai Quotes & Sayings

The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh
and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals,
water to sound, fire to form: life flickers
uncounted into the supple arms of love. — Muriel Rukeyser

THE STATE consists of a number of people who, having somehow got hold of it, make use of the machinery of coercion to the end that they might pursue their version of happiness without respect to the discipline of the market place. — Anonymous

were rabid, foaming bats blindly cleaving the air around his head. And it seemed that every few steps he would run straight into a twister of mosquitoes. Though he had been paid a large amount of cash up front, he was seriously considering increasing his daily fee on this one. — David Baldacci

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research. — George Coyne

Most things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual- if one things about it, it's really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn't think things through. — Paula McLain

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis. — Havelock Ellis

Wisdom never stands in the way of a fool. — Rachel Alexander

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. — William Penn

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction. — Rachel Kushner

Unlike most travel writers, he [Babur] is honest. — Rory Stewart

again passed moons and years over Zarathustra's soul, and he heeded it not; his hair, however, became white. — Friedrich Nietzsche