Symantha Shackelford Quotes & Sayings

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up. — Peter Kreeft

How did humans guide themselves? How did they know what to do and what not to do? — Ian Tregillis

It took a month for the gestalt of drugs and tension he moved through to turn those perpetually startled eyes into wells of reflexive need. He'd watched her personality fragment, calving like an iceberg, splinters drifting away, and finally he'd seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction. — William Gibson

We contemplated the stars beyond the Moon, big as pieces of fruit, made of light, ripened on the curved branches of the sky, and everything exceeded my most luminous hopes, and yet, and yet, it was, instead, exile.
I thought only of the Earth. It was the Earth that caused each of us to be that someone he was rather than someone else; up there, wrested from the Earth, it was as if I were no longer that I, not she that She for me. — Italo Calvino

Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day. — Gregory David Roberts

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times. — Gottfried Leibniz

The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force. — Emmuska Orczy

What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even. — Amy Hempel

I'd rather talk to myself then a fella' that's mad about how right he is. — D.L. Greenlee

Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt. — Marisha Pessl

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food. — Kanye West