Kenyasi Quotes & Sayings

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences. — Tom Robbins

Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity. — Debasish Mridha

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk. — Mel Tillis

Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably? — Sophie Hannah

The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story. — Christine Jennings

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I didn't believe it was happening. But it was.
Just being here, being away, it was all so much easier in a way I didn't anticipate. In a way I didn't
think my life could be anymore. It was a huge relief. — Gayle Forman

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. — Christopher Paolini

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence. — Polybius