Shibendu Quotes & Sayings

Everything is made up of shapes and spaces. — Joey Lawsin

One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken farewell to his men. Some he had seen weeping as they folded burnt and shot-pierced battle flags and laid them on the stacked arms of surrender. As he told his troops his own grief he tried to give them hope to rebuild out of the poverty and ashes to which many would return. Gordon would never forget a Kentucky father who lost two sons, one dying for the North, the other for the South. Over the two graves of his soldier boys the father set up a joint monument inscribed God knows which was right. — Carl Sandburg

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. — Michel De Montaigne

Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage. — Brian Littrell

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word
Man — George Orwell

The shadow of decay and disintegration lurked everywhere, and I was part of it. Like a shadow burned into a wall — Haruki Murakami

It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.
But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple. — Terry Pratchett

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it. — Nido R. Qubein