Tanquam Suspectus Quotes & Sayings

I'm convinced that empathy is more powerful than hate and that our lives should be dedicated to making it go viral. — Zak Ebrahim

I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do. — Charles Barkley

Your job becomes your pulpit, your performance becomes your platform, and the marketplace becomes your parish. — Bill Winston

As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet." — Mindy Kaling

If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts. — Rajiv Mehrotra

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
The ground opens up and envelopes me
Each time I go out to walk the dog.
Or the broad edged silly music the wind
Makes when I run for a bus...

Things have come to that.

And now, each night I count the stars.
And each night I get the same number.
And when they will not come to be counted,
I count the holes they leave.

Nobody sings anymore.

And then last night I tiptoed up
To my daughter's room and heard her
Talking to someone, and when I opened
The door, there was no one there...
Only she on her knees, peeking into

Her own clasped hands — LeRoi Jones

Sometimes, for the sake of the larger good, one has to do things that may not appear right at the time. Perhaps, a laudable end can justify some questionable means. — Amish Tripathi

Ase waved it off, even though his heart hammered in his chest, trying to fly out of his ribcage and jump down Jase's throat to go stay with his heart forever and ever, amen. — Kade Boehme

I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied. — Pico Iyer

The afterlife is not so much a place but rather what happens to me, to the others left behind, after Ben's life. — Sophie Hardcastle

Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better — Tony Dungy