Sileter Quotes & Sayings

There was something, both in fiction and in his life (Nabokov), that we instinctively related to and grasped, the possibility of a boundless freedom when all options are taken away.
I could invent violin or be devoured by the void. — Azar Nafisi

I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization. — Alissa Nutting

But the tune ends too soon for us all — Ian Anderson

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way. — Oswald Chambers

That's bloody obvious. A schoolboy with a palsied brain could have worked that one out. — Bernard Cornwell

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. — Swami Vivekananda

The truth is every problem can't be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the answers to those challenges lie primarily in our families and our faiths, not our politicians. — Marco Rubio

Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.' — Viggo Mortensen

Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing. — Oscar Wilde

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute. — Rumi

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. — Orison Swett Marden