Satarupa Pyne Quotes & Sayings

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego. — Rob Chapman

The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and natural background, is, however incorrigible it may seem to us, a rather peculiar idea within the context of the world's cultures. — Jonathan Haidt

A son for a flag is a lot of sacrifice. — Tucker Elliot

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random. — Robin Marantz Henig

Keeley used the opening to bury the knife into Hank Scarlett's heart. It took three tries. — C.J. Box

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure. — Peter Forsyth

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle. — Charles A. Murray

It's easy to confuse motion with progress. — David Gergen

No matter our dire circumstances, no matter our shared upbringing, no matter the chill his smile sends over my body, he's still him, and I'm still me, and yes, he needs to have a female heir someday, but with a proper lady, a duchess or a princess - not the girl who spars with him. — Sara Raasch

A book that is shut is but a block. — Thomas Fuller

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed. — Lisa Kudrow

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement. — Andrew Sarris

The Prophet said: A man will come out of the East who will preach in the name of the family of Muhammad, though he is the furthest of all men from them. He will hoist black flags which begin with victory and end with unbelief. — James Waterson

We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself. — Carl R. Rogers