Vekhi Quotes & Sayings

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. — Voltaire

My father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality. — Mariko Mori

Don't grumble," I said. "Or I'll bake you more cookies. — Kelley Armstrong

We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life. — Neale Donald Walsch

A little thorn can cause much suffering. A small cloud may hide the sun. Tiny foxes spoil the vineyards; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These small sins burrow in the soul and fill it with what is hateful to Christ, and thus our comfortable fellowship and communion with Him is spoiled. A — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas. — Semen Frank

Some people can seem perfect ... everything about them can, on paper, be just right.
Until you get to know them. Really know them.
Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you. — Meg Cabot

I'm here to tell you I do [have a baby bump]. I am not pregnant, but I have had three kids and there is a bump. — Jennifer Garner

Who votes for these uninspiring gorgons? — Rupert Dreyfus

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about - not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience? — Fred Rogers

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James Baldwin

Though she would never admit it to polite Society, Lady Georgette Thorold hated brandy almost as much as she hated husbands. So it was the cruelest of jokes when she awoke with nary a clue to her surroundings, smelling like one and pressed up against the other. — Jennifer McQuiston

Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. — Donna J. Haraway

If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement. — Neale Donald Walsch

Never in my life before that moment had I felt a need like this. It was so acute it made my teeth ache. Never had I felt like a bitch in heat, but I did then. I stared at that cock, and I wanted it. Wanted to drop to my knees and beg him for it, any way I could get it, anywhere. — R.K. Lilley