Shaghayegh Dariush Quotes & Sayings

Now that Otoko had heard about the night at Enoshima, that old love flared up ominously within her. Yet in those flames she could see a single white lotus blossom. Their love was a dreamlike flower that not even Keiko could stain. — Yasunari Kawabata

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing. — Fred Durst

He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood — Natasha Trethewey

There are hundreds of us living in an abandoned airport outside some large city. We don't need shelter or warmth, obviously, but we like having the walls and roofs over our heads. Otherwise we'd just be wandering in an open field of dust somewhere, and that would be horrifying. To have nothing at all around us, nothing to touch or look at, no hard lines whatsoever, just us and the gaping maw of the sky. I imagine that's what being full-dead is like. An emptiness vast and absolute. — Isaac Marion

I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me. — Jonny Lang

To be human is not simply to find a life alone with God, but to be born in relationship with others. — Craig Rennebohm

Ultimately, we live in the face of an irresolvable mystery about our origin and, for that matter, about our end. And what Schleiermacher would have us do is (a) acknowledge that this is the case and (b) accept it as something positive, a point of departure for a life of trusting joy. — George Pattison

I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement — Robert Jordan

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate. — Samuel Johnson

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. — Halle Berry

Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms. — Walter Millis

He steadied himself with one great hand against the city wall. He had told me he'd never stop growing. He'd meant it literally. What had I been addressing all these years? His finger? — Rachel Hartman

Hey, laugh all you want, but I grew up poor in backwoods Florida, with an immigrant, single mom. I'm the only person in my family who learned to read, and that was only because of comic books at first, and then fantasy novels and an active imagination. I got addicted to them when I was a kid and read like crazy. I must have read thousands of them. So I've been reading about elves and that kind of thing for twenty plus years. I can't help it if I'm excited." "You were a geek," she said. "Well, I guess." "I bet you played Dungeons and Dragons in a friend's garage." "Well, yeah." "Nerd. — Larry Correia

A trial was a stupid word, considering
that an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period. — Jodi Picoult

To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana