Mithrain Quotes & Sayings

I love going for walks and like to do fun active things outdoors. — Miranda Kerr

The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger. — John Milton

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless. — Dionne Warwick

Eventually, at Buddhahood, you become capable of remaining in the innate — Dalai Lama XIV

The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
[Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.] — Ovid

Hortensia set the tray down and brought a shawl and wrapped it protectively around Mama's shoulders. Esperanza couldn't remember a time when Hortensia had not taken care of them. She was a Zapotec Indian from Oaxaca, with a short, solid figure and blue-black hair in a braid down her back. Esperanza watched the two women look out into the dark and couldn't help but think that Hortensia was almost the opposite of Mama. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your arm. Call it the impulse to make something out of nothing, call it an obsessive-compulsive disorder, call it logorrhea. Have you been in a bookstore lately? Have you seen what these authors are doing, the mountainous piles of the flakes of themselves they're leaving behind, like the neatly labeled jars of shit, piss, and toenail clippings one of John Barth's characters bequeathed to his wife, the ultimate expression of his deepest self? — T.C. Boyle

The shadow of the Great Conflict had not yet made felt any forerunner of its chill. The lads who were to fight, and perhaps fall, on the fields of France and Flanders, Gallipoli and Palestine, were still roguish schoolboys with a fair life in prospect before them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams. Slowly — L.M. Montgomery

History provides a compelling argument that every scientist who tinkers around with unstoppable shit needs a reliable flamethrower. — Andrew Smith

I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more dangerous if it is coupled with the missionary zeal to enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality, to dare to see the world differently can become a "think crime" in a truly Orwellian sense as we get steadily closer to 1984. — Paul Watzlawick