Sreki Soba Quotes & Sayings

I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family. — Linda Goldstein Knowlton

A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably — Kamala Suraiyya Das

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise. — Julie Payette

In school, they would tell you that life wouldn't come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don't. Don't go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups. — Libba Bray

For all practical purposes, soldiers in the field have the status of slaves, the prisoners of their grand illusions, their training, and their army. — Ann Jones

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse. — Peter Greenaway

It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You can show this false face with no problem when sometimes you meet on a sea beach, sometimes in a garden, sometimes under the moon and the stars, but when you really start living together then the reality starts surfacing. The real person is a hell and all that sweet talk that had happened under the stars becomes just lies. — Rajneesh

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. — E.W. Howe

Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again. — Anne Rice

When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting. — Peter Saul

I'm tipping the hat and looking back. — Robert Plant