Nasruddin Hodja Quotes & Sayings

I know I can be accused of sacrilege in writing about political economy in the style of a novel about love or pirates. But I confess I get a pain from reading valuable works by certain sociologists, political experts, economists and historians who write in code. — Eduardo Galeano

However if you wish unhappiness on someone else then the very strength of that wish will make you unhappy. — CLAMP

Your atom, I think it will never go back to peace, to cereal or rocks or anything like that. Once it has been seduced there is no way back, the way is always ahead, and it is so much harder after the passage from innocence. But it does not work to pretend to be innocent anymore. That seduced atom has energies that seduce people, and those rarely get lost. — Elif Batuman

To me, it's all about saying "thank you" before you open the gift box. At times, the gift wrap is so beautiful, all I want to do is admire the craftsmanship before very carefully pulling back the tape to see what's inside. I think that pretty much defines how I see people in general. — Jes Fuhrmann

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become. — Gordon Livingston

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends. — Tom Cruise

No matter, I am glad of it," I thought; "I am glad that I shall seem repulsive to her; I like that. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit. — Gary North

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No. How dare you . You were the guardian of throne and country. And now I, having cast aside my life for you, find the Dora Milaje and their capatain turned jambazi! What has come of you, Aneka? What of your oath to the nation? To me ? — Ta-Nehisi Coates