Sawkar Pettai Quotes & Sayings

The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with an outsize intensity. These were the things that had been solidified in my mind by reiteration, that recurred in dreams and daily thoughts: certain faces, certain conversations, which, taken as a group, represented a secure version of the past that I had been constructing since 1992. But there was another, irruptive, sense of things past. The sudden reencounter in the present, of something or someone long forgotten, some part of myself I had relegated to childhood and to Africa. — Teju Cole

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet — Debbie Cowens

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one. — Koren Zailckas

I don't think their mummy and daddy told them they were little sunbeams for Jesus. — Louise Rennison

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor. — Joel Osteen

I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal. — Martina Mcbride

India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.' — Shekhar Kapur

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door. — Mary Higgins Clark

I confess, I do not understand what there is in her to make a clever man like you act such a fool."
"You might, if you were not a eunuch."
"Is that the way of it? A man may have wits, or a bit of meat between his legs, but not both?" Varys tittered. "Perhaps I should be grateful I was cut, then."
The Spider was right. — George R R Martin

I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past. — Edward M. Lerner

Your skin is a waste of space because there's no heart inside of you — Caroline Kepnes