The Promise Nikita Singh Quotes & Sayings

Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it ... What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning ... Does our being alive matter? — Harold S. Kushner

Studying the world's oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked like without it.

Writing as I would define it serves to record language by means of an agreed set of symbols that enable a message to be played back like a wax cylinder recording.

The reader's eye runs over the signs and tells the brain how each is pronounced and the inner message springs into life. — Irving Finkel

And i've begun
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you
from Balances — Nikki Giovanni

I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise we would never have won. — Christopher Lee

How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up. — Jon Stewart

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style. — William Butler Yeats

It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with. — Nora Roberts

Yes, we have been visited and it appears that our visitors are prepared to help us if we allow them. It is a benign contact, however there are those who think that we also have been visited by those who do not wish us well, but I can't speak to that. I just know we have been visited, and I believe that we're being observed, and perhaps we can be helped in a crucial time if we're ready for that. — Edgar Mitchell

Talent is universal, opportunity is not. — Vinay Singh

They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls. — Diane Setterfield