Sharmistha Das Quotes & Sayings

It may be that your sole purpose in life is
simply to serve as a warning to others.
Chloe Traeger — Jill Shalvis

In the general fiction section Ava discovered a well-thumbed edition of the latest bestseller. One million copies sold! Pah again! She cracked the book open at the spine, knew just where the join was weakest. She laid it open like a sacrificial goat on the carped, hidden between the shelves of books. Then she unleashed her machete, samurai-warrior style, and raising it above her head brought it down, and cleaved the book in twain, splitting it down the middle like a coconut. And that was when, seeing the scimitar rise again, the librarian screamed. — Mark O'Flynn

This flesh in which we live is nothing more than a cocoon, and only when we step out of it do we truly begin to live. — Nancy Stephan

I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word 'Whosoever' is a very wide and comprehensive one ... My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver. — Charles Spurgeon

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point. — Chiang Kai-shek

An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provides rules. Gravity for instance. — Kate Carlisle

"Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy." — Charles Dickens

Under orders from Kitchener himself, an attempt was to be made to bribe the Turkish commander of the Kut siege into letting Townshend's army go in return for one million English pounds' worth of gold. If Lawrence resented being the bearer of this shameful instruction, almost without precedent in British military history, he never let on. Then again, he'd very recently been given two reminders of the puffery and hypocrisy of military culture. — Scott Anderson

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. — Jorge Luis Borges

Dont disturb my circles! — Archimedes

I slept as the person in Plutarch that ran from Marathon to Athens without a pause would have slept if he had not fallen dead, the creature. — Patrick O'Brian

This is Mr. Round."
"SHORT Round. — James Kahn