Surapong Somkaew Quotes & Sayings

Most serious confrontations in life are not political, they are existential. One can agree with someone's political stance but disagree in a fundamental way with how they came to that position. It is a question of attitude, of moral configuration. My husband and I had plenty of grievances, but it all boiled down to a fundamental difference in the way we perceived life, the context within which we defined ourselves and our world. For that, there was no reconciliation or resolution, there was only separation or surrender. — Azar Nafisi

HARRY AND GINNY POTTER'S HOUSE, ALBUS'S ROOM ALBUS — J.K. Rowling

Fear makes men believe the worst. — Quintus Curtius Rufus

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. — Junot Diaz

And if I fucked you, it'd be forceful, wouldn't it?" "Well, that's what rape is, Borden. Forceful." He shrugged. "You can have consensual forceful fucking, right? — R.J. Lewis

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. — Armand Assante

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense. — Ray Kurzweil

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow. — Honore De Balzac

Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God. ... Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ. — Seraphim Rose

A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure. — Elbridge Gerry

Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it. — J.C. Reed

You gotta find what you like and let it kill you. — Charles Bukowski