Surya Dev Quotes & Sayings

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I told them you had ugly tattoos and a weird squash-shaped dick," I say, trying to keep up my bitch mode. — Aly Martinez

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances. — Dean Ornish

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles. — Gavin Bryars

I cannot stand this any longer. I don't know where I'm going. I suspect that I am not going anywhere at all, just away — Veronica Roth

Why be seduced by something as small as a front door in another country? Why fall in love with a place because it has trams and its people seldom have curtains in their homes? However absurd the intense reactions provoked by such small (and mute) foreign elements may seem, the pattern is at least familiar from our personal lives. There, too, we may find ourselves anchoring emotions of love on the way a person butters his or her bread, or recoiling at his or her taste in shoes. To condemn ourselves for these minute concerns is to ignore how rich in meaning details may be. — Alain De Botton

I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy. — Patrick O'Brian

Maybe to her destiny was "something"; that was none of his business. But to him, destiny was "someone. — Fredrik Backman

We each take up one virtual space per title ... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book. — J.A. Konrath

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views. — Andrew Bird

Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam. — Herman Melville