Tarannum Sarwat Quotes & Sayings

Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her. — Clarice Lispector

That was the beginning of the revolution. Many years have gone by and blood keeps running, soaking the soil of Haiti, but I am not there to weep. — Isabel Allende

I can't see the world as a great hospital with us all nursing and pitying each other. — Elizabeth Harrower

The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself. — Joscelyn Godwin

All people, whatever they are doing, no matter how crazy or irrational it seems ... it is how they need to act - from their perspective. — Nikki Sex

I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father. — Mona Simpson

To assert as truth that which has no meaning is the core mission of humanity. — Tom King

I accepted their ridicule by sulking manfully. — Robin Hobb

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive. — Al Franken

World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It's being fulfilled every day round about us. — Billy Graham

I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is. — Richard Fleeshman

If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot. — Elizabeth Wein