Svanesoe Quotes & Sayings

So what's the big picture about our lust for sex?
We're not trying to acquire something. We want to feel something: Alive. Electrically, intensely, blazingly alive. Good. Bad. Pleasure. Pain. Bring it on
all of it.
For people who live small, I guess enough of that can be found in sex.
But for those of us who live large, the most alive we ever feel is when we're punching air with a fist, uncurling our middle finger with a cool smile, and flipping Death the big old bird. — Karen Marie Moning

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. — Lord Byron

The rivers had been drained overnight and what was left were things no person should have to image let alone see. She had been smart enough to stay away. But, other humans - were curious. They saw and the image planted in their heads made them bait for the demons.When they extended their hands and offered them peace of mind, the humans accepted without hesitation. — Auden Johnson

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle. — Martin Buber

On Kim Kardashian: I think she's cute. And, no, she's not too old for me. Above 40 is a little too old for me. — Justin Bieber

He saw that the key to liberation would be to break through ignorance and to enter deeply into the heart of reality and attain a direct experience of it. Such knowledge would not be the knowledge of the intellect, but of direct experience. — Thich Nhat Hanh

If you broke Elena's heart, Star Wars would spill out. This was a holy day for her
it was a cosmic event. This was her planets lining up. (Tatooine, Coruscant, Hoth.) — Rainbow Rowell

There is a massive gender imbalance on TV — Dawn O'Porter

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. — Eric Mangini

Every man has both a poetic obligation and a human obligation. — Hassan Blasim

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. — Frederick C. Beiser

Resentment is anger looking for payback. It's also a high-interest-earning emotion. Each new resentment is added to the ones from before. Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a bitter barnacle of hatred. — Augusten Burroughs

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are. — Krishnananda Saraswati

The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say. — Charles Spurgeon