Shudraga Quotes & Sayings

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong. — Lykke Li

When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods. — Sophocles

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan. — Daniel Barenboim

President Truman had a little sign on his desk. I've always admired its philosophy. It read: THE BUCK STOPS HERE. I've envied certain people, too, the great majority of my colleagues whose sole mission in life is to attain the goal of mediocrity. They sail into a safe harbor, button up and conveniently and quietly sort their paper clips, avoiding responsibility and decisions. I can't explain, Nicole, why I was singled out and am unable to avoid conflict, but I can't run or plug my ears or close my eyes or turn my back. I often envy those who can. — Leon Uris

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's fun to do something dumb. Not something really dumb, like my second marriage. That was really really dumb. — Lisa Scottoline

Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink. — Michael Ian Black

Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on my own. Surely, I thought, I must be the saddest child in the world; that there must be something innately horrid about me to cause my father to cast me off so heartlessly. I believed that if I could discover what it was, there might be a chance of putting things right, of somehow making it up to him. — Alan Bradley

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue. — Don Marquis