Mathuram Santosham Quotes & Sayings

You're going to listen to me, and for once you're going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren't there. — Genna Rulon

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion. — Charles Robert Maturin

Xhex: John, she said softty. He paused and looked over his shoulder toward the bed. I love you. His handsome face tightened in pain, and he rubbed the middle of his chest, as if someone had fisted up his heart and squeezed it dead. And then he turned away. As she hit the confines of her prison ... She was screaming at the top of her lungs. — J.R. Ward

Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse ( ... ); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures. — Charles Dickens

Do you think trees are the new birds? Don't answer that right away. — Julie Klausner

The monsters are gone."
"Really?" Doubtful.
"I killed the monsters. That's what fathers do. — Fiona Wallace

What will be, will be. And then I'll fix it. — J.S. Burke

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. — Thomas Nagel

By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. — Kate Chopin

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. — Henry Miller