Sayantis Quotes & Sayings

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees. — Louis L'Amour

Not long ago I was much amused by imagining - what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the world - what a predicament my judges would be in, with my having only a fortnight to live, now that corporal punishment and torture is abolished. I should die comfortably in hospital, warm aad snug, with an attentive doctor, and very likely much more snug and comfortable than at home. I wonder that the idea doesn't strike people in my position, if only as a joke. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...we have to be aware of the power and importance of organizing not just around identity, but the materiality of daily life, which still, in many respects, is racialized for people of color. You build from that, but you have a grander social vision that transcends it and recognizes the strengths and limitations that are drawn from the particularity of identity. — Manning Marable

I have no inclination to seek attention. — John Scarlett

I just love to watch people get scared. It's like, 'Yes, I accomplished my goal!' — Kathryn Newton

We have a festering mass of human wretchedness in all our great towns, which is the natural hotbed of such anarchical movements: all the great continental countries are full of this explosive material. Can we depend on our country keeping free from the infection when we have far more poverty in our midst than the neighbouring European States? — Edward R.B. Pease

I loved birds, and every bird was my favorite bird. But no bird was a better bird than a bird I saw with Linda. — Bob Tarte

A city lives or dies on its myths," Cleaves said tapping the side of his nose and — European P. Douglas

And I lie down on your carpet so long that you think I will stay forever but I get up and I see the indentation in the carpet and I get jealous and say, "I am no longer needed here. — Sam Pink

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.