Mahasweta Das Quotes & Sayings

When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn't know that flies on their faces were bad. They didn't know that a strange man feeding them their first scary gulps of solid food wasn't a torturer. Life in the cribs alone must have seemed to them like freedom. That's what I was missing about the biblical doctrine of adoption. Sure it's glorious in the long run. But it sure seems like hell in the short run ... — Russell D. Moore

I wish for once
that she could see
the her that I can see;
beauty that both
steals my breath
and gives it back to me. — Kirk Diedrich

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success. — Michael Arndt

Sweetheart, what gives you the idea that you're worth a half-year of celibacy?"
"I may not be; you're the only one who can answer that. — Lisa Kleypas

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision. — Steve Schirripa

The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the international bankers. — Louis Thomas McFadden

I found that no food tastes as good as what it feels like to be healthy. — Art Smith

When the Albans had left their city the Romans levelled to the ground all the public and private edifices in every direction, and a single hour gave over to destruction and ruin the work of those four centuries during which Alba had stood. The temples of the gods, however, were spared, in accordance with the king's proclamation. — Livy