Nandita Mahtani Quotes & Sayings

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings ... — Mary MacLane

Don't trust your fears. They're unfounded. — Josh Langley

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. — Kahlil Gibran

long, pointed nose jutted forth from its cheeks, its face more leather than stone. Like a mask. Rye did not come from a home with many rules, but the ones she lived by were absolute and unbreakable. The first House Rule flashed through her mind. HOUSE — Paul Durham

Let me speak to your boss I said. Six magic words that roil deep in the bowels of anymore collecting a paycheck on a biweekly basis. It's like winking at a leprechaun: he has to give up his pot of gold, and yet no one knows why. — Walter Mosley

I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal. — Michael Franti

For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its making where executives
Would never want to tamper, flows on south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth. — W. H. Auden

Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness. — Raj Singh

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. — Willis Gaylord Clark

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them. — Lena Waithe

As quick as boiled asparagus! — Robert Graves

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part. — John Banville