Sotabin Quotes & Sayings

She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live. — Markus Zusak

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. — Emile M. Cioran

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Language is therefore "both the medium and the object of representation" (Fludernik 2009:64), and while we have direct access to the medium (i.e. the language(s) on the level of text), the latter (i.e. the language(s) on the level of narration and on the level of story) can only be constructed from the former. As pointed out in the introduction, this distinction between language as medium and language as object and the relationship between the two has so far not been awarded a significant role in scholarly writing about the linguistic hybridity typical for cross-cultural writing. Differentiating between the language(s) as medium and the language(s) as object becomes necessary, as the relation between medium and object is not one-to-one. The same medium can represent different objects. Two short — Susanne Klinger

It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else. — Gustave Flaubert

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week. — William Henry Bragg

Then what is the relationship between something that you do and the state of joy? You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present, any activity that is not just a means to an end. It isn't the action you perform that you really enjoy, but the deep sense of aliveness that flows into — Eckhart Tolle

If I was killed in prison. That would be a blessing right now. — Jeffrey Dahmer

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emmett and I met at a tantric sex education class a year ago, — Mary Calmes

Whatever variety evolution brings forth ... Every new dimension of world-response ... means another modality for God's trying out his hidden essence and discovering himself through the surprises of world-adventure ... the heightening pitch and passion of life that go with the twin rise of perception and motility in animals. The ever more sharpened keenness of appetite and fear, pleasure and pain, triumph and anguish, love and even cruelty - their very edge is the deity's gain. Their countless, yet never blunted incidence - hence the necessity of death and new birth - supplies the tempered essence from which the Godhead reconstitutes itself. All this, evolution provides in the mere lavishness of its play and sternness of its spur. Its creatures, by merely fulfilling themselves in pursuit of their lives, vindicate the divine venture. Even their suffering deepens the fullness of the symphony. Thus, this side of good and evil, God cannot lose in the great evolutionary game. — Hans Jonas

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. — John Milton

Saying things like that to me makes this so damn hard. I'll always be here for you. But don't tell me you need me. — Abbi Glines

From my personal experiences, it is evident that so many wealthy females within the kingdom are devoted to little else but frivolity, with their thoughts focused mainly on their looks and their luxurious possessions. — Jean Sasson

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' — Quentin Tarantino