Konski Tabori Quotes & Sayings

Rest assured, dear friend, that many noteworthy and great sciences and arts have been discovered through the understanding and subtlety of women, both in cognitive speculation, demonstrated in writing, and in the arts, manifested in manual works of labor. I will give you plenty of examples. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies 1405 — Elizabeth Gilbert

Forgiveness is essential to your well being, but the person you forgive doesn't need to be present in your life because the act really, is between only you and God. — Toni Sorenson

sounding now/old songs/deep water/no-Great Voices/no-Shark/old songs/new songs — Dan Simmons

In practice, American modernizers tended to be distrustful of populist politics and inclined to favor elite-led societies; often they turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and social control. — Fredrik Logevall

Don't dwell in comparisons; be your own kinda' beautiful — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

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

The true purpose of a present is to be received. — Marie Kondo

It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect. — Priyanka Chopra

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up ... The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber ... To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen. — Andrew Smith

She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts. — Lisa Papademetriou

When we emerge into the beauty of a dancing peacock, our spirit dances with joy. — Debasish Mridha

When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it? — Bill Skarsgard

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. — Khaled Hosseini