Nitendrawer Quotes & Sayings

All men believe in the soul and act accordingly, even if they do not always speak up. If somebody has committed a murder and admits it, but insists that he did it unintentionally, what follows then with the prosecutor, the defense, the witnesses, the experts, and the court? Why do they deliver learned speeches, analyze every detail, and so on, when the very deed has been admitted to and its consequences are evident? All their efforts are not concerned with external objective facts, but with an inner problem: that of intention. It is not a question of what actually happened, but what happened in the heart of the murderer. Moreover, everyone involved in the case spontaneously believes that the intention is more important than the consequences. That means that everyone, maybe unconsciously, prefers the soul to the facts. — Alija Izetbegovic

They had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. — Jane Austen

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen. — Mitch Hedberg

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage. — Stewart Brand

It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There's no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody's got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it. — Paul Bowles

How's it going down there?"
"It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something. — J.D. Robb

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time. — Jane Asher

In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins. — Pablo Neruda

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. — Walter Lippmann

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery. — Karl Marx

declare war on those parts of themselves that keep them from exceptional lives. — Stephen Mansfield