Saudades Tuas Quotes & Sayings

I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them. — Dean Koontz

One option was to become a writer; the other, which seemed more viable, was to go properly mad. I would be supported by the state and would never have to work or take on any responsibility. — Paulo Coelho

We called one's lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one's whole situation ... We don't want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives. — Ernest Becker

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years. — Mohsin Hamid

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself. — Susan Rice

One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an all-volunteer army. I would think the return to the draft would be an intervention that would require discussion that might be more helpful in terms of our ability to limit war. — Stanley Hauerwas

Oh, Ivivis, sorcerers don't have mothers! — Fritz Leiber

The geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough ... You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life? — Seneca The Younger