Malestar Quotes & Sayings

Maybe, I thought, after a few months of sobriety, you could successfully smoke marijuana again, or maybe every anniversary you got to have one glass of a perfectly chilled California Chardonnay. — Anne Lamott

Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can see. — Mohsin Hamid

I always go heavy and I always go to failure. — Branch Warren

We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday. — Gerard Houllier

I have learned that it is one thing to kill in battle, to send a brave man's soul to the corpse hall of the gods, but quite another to take a helpless man's life ... — Bernard Cornwell

It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a function of relational data sets, linked to rules, like in DNA chains that have infinite adaptability for sequencing proteins. Out of only four bases, which in turn are further limited by two rules of complimentarity, a myriad of forms arise. — Cecil Balmond

Before Ben-Yehuda ... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did. — Cecil Roth

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas. — Calvin Trillin

I learned that people want to be in love. They long to be in love, they pretend to be in love, and sometimes they are. — Carole Bayer Sager

Each piece of glass is another piece of myself I gave to him.
It's too bad I didn't keep any pieces for myself. — Amanda Grace

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life. — Mike Tyson

undemonstrative in a burly fat-pig style — Joseph Conrad

Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports. — Kapil Dev

I say yes when I mean no
and the wrinkle grows. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away. — John Burnside