Sr-71 Blackbird Quotes & Sayings

See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff. — Swami Vivekananda

There is nothing that makes a man grow beyond his stature than a woman telling him she loves him. and however much she might have lied to him, there will always be a part of him that is grateful to her for this, and that will harbour some love for her. — Jo Nesbo

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? — Stendhal

Curious fact that those who never fail are also those who never truly succeed. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well:
larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast
of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings! — Anne Sexton

Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love. — Gary Chapman

Silence has always been my default mode - my best defense against the rest of the world. — Matthew Quick

Say to yourself, 'I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative force in the universe. — Wayne Dyer

Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now? — Angelus Silesius

I knew we were all thinking of her, dead and laughless, cold, no longer Alaska. The idea that Alaska didn't exist still stunned me every time I thought about it. She's rotting underground in Vine Station, Alabama, I thought, but even that wasn't quite it. Her body was there, but she was nowhere, nothing, POOF. — John Green

You're not gonna kill that doctor I just saw, are you?" Carmine asked, the heavy dose of morphine in his system clouding his thoughts. "I know you killed that other one, so I was just wondering."
Corrado said nothing, and Carmine wasn't sure whether that was good or bad.
"I don't think you should," he said. "He's just a doctor."
"Carmine?"
"Yeah?"
"Shut up."
Carmine decided then he should probably shut up. — J.M. Darhower

The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles. — C.P. Cavafy