Pg 163 Quotes & Sayings

People use each other as markers for what's real, so you can't be alone anymore. Solitude draws suspicions.

pg. 163 — S.K. Kalsi

As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163 — Michelle Richmond

We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book. — Alan Jay Lerner

The heat of late afternoon closed in around us like an animate thing; you could feel it on your skin, warm and moist, like a great beast panting. The air was so dense it seemed to require a huge effort even to inhale it. It lay thick in the lungs and seemed to give no refreshment. Pg 163 — Geraldine Brooks

The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are not quick in responding to global, flexible networks. — Ashraf Ghani

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation. — Aristotle.

Love gives strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power. — George Hickenlooper

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give. — Robert Mondavi

Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop. — Deborah Harkness