Osahankinta Quotes & Sayings

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere. — Henry David Thoreau

Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? — David Foster Wallace

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act ... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ. — Dallas Willard

I'm about to object when he turns his head and takes my thumb into his mouth instead. He gnaws at it all gentle, teeth and tongue teasing over my fingerprint, before he slides it further so that my hand winds up cupping his jaw. His mouth is hot and wet and when he sucks softly, I get an unexpected, almost electric pulse that shoots straight to my groin; it's damned sexy what he's doing. — Bey Deckard

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was. — Anna Deavere Smith

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does. — Marcel Proust

So thirsty of compliment is the basis of corruptive mind. — Toba Beta

I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo. — Lauryn Hill

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. — David Mitchell

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. — Irvine Welsh

And if she had not come back to me ... if you had not come ... if I had known for sure that both of you were dead ... Then I would still have lived ... and done what must be done. So will you. — Diana Gabaldon

In a sentence: Nature beatified the neurotic. A tendency to make quick albeit mostly false associations was deemed more evolutionarily beneficial than more reliable but equally more time-consuming rational cynicism. — John Zande

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa. — Ruben Blades

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe