Mykolas Dorofejus Quotes & Sayings

In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker. — Mohsin Hamid

With no blame there's no shame. A human society can't exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It's a central human attribute. In fact, it's the first human quality ever recorded.'
'Where?'
'Genesis, Chapter Three. The covering of nakedness. The acquisition of shame was the first consequence of consciousness, of the speciating moment. Take shame from me and you are calling me pre-human. — Sebastian Faulks

Her name was Zenobia and she was a descendant of Cleopatra. She — Nujeen Mustafa

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either. — John Conyers

To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return. — Walter Benjamin

Tamani?" she asked, even though she knew this was the wrong time. "How is a plant supposed to beat a superstrong troll? — Aprilynne Pike

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are. — Sidney Poitier

A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly. — Rick Riordan

It used to be that each time you fell in love, the effort of loving released in you the energy to hold everything together a little longer. Then, after several months or years, when things began to crack apart again, you would fall in love with someone else. New energy would be released, and for a time you and your world would be safe once more.

By now, however, you have exhausted that. There seems to be no energy left - if you had discovered alcohol earlier it might have saved a few broken hearts. For you, alcohol is not the problem - it's the solution: dissolving all the separate parts into one. A universal solvent. An ocean. — Ron Butlin

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again. — Alan Paton

But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more; and besides, his letters to the living were increasingly mental, and anyway, to the Unconscious, what was death? Dreams did not recognize it. — Saul Bellow

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis. — Luke Rhinehart

Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight. — J.K. Rowling

On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990] — Peter O'Donnell

I'm old enough to ask myself that question, but not so old that I don't care what the answer is. — Francois Lelord