Suostumus Quotes & Sayings

The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this category?" For God's sake, the first movie that you can get made will be your personal story, because nobody's heard it before. — Joan Tewkesbury

I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued. — Jules Renard

The truly religious person controls nothing, represses nothing. If you are a truly religious person you try to understand, not to control. You become more meditative, you watch your anger, your sex, your greed, your jealousy, your possessiveness. You watch all these poisonous things that surround you, simply watch, try to understand what anger is, and in that very understanding you transcend. You become a witness, and in that witnessing the anger melts as if the sun has risen and the snow has started melting. Understanding — Osho

My favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships. — Jeannette Walls

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct. — Baha'u'llah

According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination of environmental and lifestyle factors. — Dharma Singh Khalsa

My novel Who Fears Death is a post-apocalyptic novel set in a future Sudan. — Nnedi Okorafor

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society. — Peter Drucker

Ths visions of the mind have a debt to reality that it is hard to get the mind to pay when it is under the influence of its visions. — Wendell Berry

The real deceivers are the literalists, who say, I cannot tell a lie. — Norman O. Brown

You can put your trust in something that's obvious, that's measurable or predictable - but that's not faith. Nor is believing in something that gives you no pause for doubt, no reason or desire to question. Faith is something more than that. By definition, it cannot have proof as its foundation. — James Islington

You have a good father." She was taken aback. — Henning Mankell