Souring Grains Quotes & Sayings

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me. — Alice Hoffman

Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth. — Byrd Gibbens

I didn't know I was talking to the President of the United States. I thought it was someone pranking you. I swear! — Scarlett Dawn

A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees. — Radhanath Swami

I love you." I laugh. "You already said that." "I've never said it before. I like it ... I think I'll keep saying it. — Miranda Kenneally

We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world. — Megan Martha White

Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom. — William Arthur Ward

Its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored — Adnan Safi

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family. — Stevie Wonder

I call this one the Ninja Center-fold! ~ Naruto — Masashi Kishimoto

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful. — Leonard Mlodinow

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion. — George Sand

To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem. — Alain De Botton

I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice. — Diana Wynne Jones