Nahide Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps the most overpowering contrast [with the West] is the virtual absence in premodern China of the idea of a transcendent creator God who is distinct from Nature in a fundamental qualitative sense. The Chinese had notions of a supreme god in various guises (that is, 'hypatotheism'), and also, as we have seen, of a somewhat demiurge-like 'transformer' constantly reshaping the cosmos. — Mark Elvin

Ah, I don't do interviews, really. — Joe Pesci

It was so undignified and unnecessary, the way married people behaved. The indiscriminate airing of grievances, the incessant flinging of blame and complaint. Of course, I had no idea back then what a marriage required. How the resentments and oversights and misunderstandings could pile up, sometimes moving ordinary kindness beyond reach. Love piled up, too, if you were lucky, but it seemed to be locked away in a separate compartment, sometimes unreachable when it was needed most. — Jan Ellison

The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day. — Jami Attenberg

She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything. — Liane Moriarty

Awareness is the main dilemma of human existence. I looked upon the professors as sages who had all the answers and upon the university as the temple of knowledge. How could an insane person like her — Eckhart Tolle

Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold — Van Morrison