Khaside Quotes & Sayings

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms. — John Lyly

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power. — Gustav Heinemann

Ideas themselves were sensual things to him. — S.P. Somtow

Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century. — Alan J. Heeger

Publishing has no onus to be representative, but a fourth of America lives in conditions close to or below the poverty line. Think about the last time you read a novel in which someone went to cash a benefit check or paid for food in food stamps, or got off a double-shift at a retail store and were having their home or car repossessed. These are the conditions in which much of this country lives and it is a dereliction of capability (not duty) to ignore it in literature. — John Freeman

Fucking supercilious Polity minds. They could be so super intelligent, but they had no real idea about her. About the alliances, responsibilities, commitments and the sheer difficulty involved in relinquishing something she'd fought so hard to build, and it had no appreciation of just how vulnerable she'd be if she let it go. They never went through anything like this - just adjusted themselves either physically or mentally to suit current circumstances. — Neal Asher

Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to the extent that it presented photographs of dead bodies in camps such as Buchenwald or Dauchau as dead Jewish bodies, when in fact relatively few Jewish prisoners were held there. — Richard J. Evans

Daily toll on your willpower reserves can be reduced by setting clear and specific goals, making decisions in advance (every decision costs willpower), minimizing distraction and anticipating problems (and how to deal with them). — William D. Edwards

Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future. — Cory Booker

You give the reader a sense of a full meal. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right. — Scott McKenzie

The Days tried to put inside me " weakness ... " .. But my soul will always beat " strength". — Jad Alhadad