Scorching Sands Quotes & Sayings

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. — Horace Walpole

The Japanese have a saying that for every new food we try, we gain seven days of life. I may be immortal by now. — Firoozeh Dumas

When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did. — Margaret Geller

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die. — Maria W. Stewart

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding. — George Santayana

My shitty book, no one is going to read, about a total asshole and a completely fucked up world. — Scott Talbot Evans

The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves. — James Hollis