Saioa Hernandez Quotes & Sayings

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. — Azar Nafisi

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore. — Michael Birch

As much as I want you and want to be with you and part of you, I can't tear myself away from the realness of my responsibilities. If you force me, physically or mentally, to go with you, as I said earlier, I cannot fight that. I don't have the strength, given my feelings for you. In spite of what I said about not taking the road away from you, I'd go because of my own selfish wanting of you. But please don't make me. Don't make me give this up, my responsibilities. I cannot do that and live with the thought of it. If I did leave now, those thoughts would turn me into something other than the woman you have come to love — Robert James Waller

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story. — Anthony De Mello

Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all. — Lev Shestov

I want to be Jericho Barrons when I grow up. — Karen Marie Moning

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. — Edward Gibbon

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation — Tahir Shah

I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. — Grover Cleveland

Easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret. — Nick Hornby