Shakuntala Devi Movie Quotes & Sayings

Reason is His voice, His interior prophet, in our souls. We call that prophet conscience. (St. Thomas used two terms for it: "synderesis" was the awareness of its reality and truth and authority and rules, and "conscience" was the application of it. We use "conscience" for both.) Conscience is essentially the power of reason to know good and evil. — Peter Kreeft

All punk rockers hate Christmas. — Rhys Ifans

... there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus. — John Irving

Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?"
"Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might as well try to destroy a mountain."
"Done that once today," Jason said. — Rick Riordan

Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you! — Nancy B. Brewer

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech. — E.L. Doctorow

I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there.
"It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch."
I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though. — Melina Marchetta

During Seattle's successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, 'If $15 is so good, why not $50?' It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so. — Nick Hanauer

Her mother, of course, would remind her that it was a woman's duty to marry and bear children. It was her only purpose in life. But then her mother had no appreciation for novels. — Jayne Fresina

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity. — Susan Sullivan

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones. — Pitirim Sorokin

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. — Henry Rollins

I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up. — Zooey Deschanel

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words. — Diane Ackerman