Miraya Quotes & Sayings

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. — H.G.Wells

Religion also teaches kindness, personal responsibility, and the grace not to judge people by the worst moments in their lives. — Richard North Patterson

For years it seemed to me that this period had become a recurrent nightmare that I had almost every night, because I would wake in the morning feeling the same terror I had felt in the room with the saint. During my adolescence, when I was a student at an icy boarding school in the Andes, I would wake up crying in the middle of the night. I needed old age without remorse to understand that the misfortune of my grandparents in the house in Catasa was that they were always mired in their nostalgic memories, and the more they insisted on conjuring them, the deper they sank. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life inspires me. Life is unfair, unkind and unforeseeable. It knocks you down when you least expect it. — Lisa De Jong

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. — Edgar Allan Poe

War is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it. — Corra May Harris

An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals. — Jack Kirby

The best for me, perhaps, would be if I could lie down one evening and not wake up again. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do. — Clay Aiken

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself — Mark Twain

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it. — Abraham Lincoln