Silvena Quotes & Sayings

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything. — Kurt Vonnegut

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present. — David Von Drehle

This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue. — Alan Cohen

The greatest handicap faced by the psychiatrist was, he argued, the inability to experience their patients' conditions; but hashish gave them a means to do so, safely and reversibly:

Can we be certain we are in a condition to understand these sick people when they tell us of their observations? [...] To comprehend the ravings of a madman, it is necessary to have raved oneself, but without having lost the awareness of one's madness. -Mike Jay — Cameron Adams

Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children. — Cherie Blair

It's time for us to come together, time for us to come together around this good man [Donald Trump]. — Mike Pence

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then? — John Milton

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great. — Audrey Tautou

It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the word for yesterday, kal, was also the word for tomorrow. In Bengali one needed an adjective, or relied on the tense of a verb, to distinguish what had already happened from what would be. — Jhumpa Lahiri

There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine! — John Frederick Boyes

I needed to know you were what the promise of you seemed to be because I haven't been good with that shit in the past and, if you were, I needed to make certain you stayed where I wanted you to be. — Kristen Ashley

Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of "X," it's on the way to the video store. — Roger Ebert