Naraj Dost Quotes & Sayings

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. — J.D. Salinger

I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life]. — Cornel West

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure. — Peter Carey

I'm surprised Thorne hasn't asked if he can start leading guided tours down here. I bet you could charge a hefty admission fee." Cinder snorted. "Please don't plant that idea in his head. — Marissa Meyer

Humans can see the world as it is not. It is why your lies can be so strong. You are able to not admit that they are lies. — Brandon Sanderson

I took a seat. The garden was bursting with people, again in all their alien ways. At that moment a strange loneliness took hold. Perhaps it was that I had not spoken a single word of English that entire day. Perhaps it was that I had never sat in a public garden before, had not even known it to be something that I'd want to do. And all around me there were people who did this regularly. It occurred to me that I really was in someone else's country and yet, in some necessary way, I was outside of their country. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. — Alexander Alekhine

A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Most of the town couldn't stand Momma, yet would show up because it was the proper thing to do then proceed to judge us on the pageantry of her burial. — Denise Grover Swank

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy. — Silver RavenWolf

The Pentagon was built because World War Two was coming, and because World War Two was coming it was built without much steel. Steel was needed elsewhere, as always in wartime. Thus the giant building was a monument to the strength and mass of concrete. So much sand was needed for the mix it was dredged right out of the Potomac River, not far from the rising walls themselves. Nearly a million tons of it. The result was extreme solidity. — Lee Child

What every man can do is to make the movement of infinite resignation, and I for my part would not hesitate to pronounce everyone cowardly who wishes to make himself believe he can not do it. With faith it is a different matter. But what every man has not a right to do, is to make others believe that faith is something lowly, or that it is an easy thing, whereas it is the greatest and the hardest. People — Soren Kierkegaard