Verezana Quotes & Sayings

And to speak of solitude again, it becomes clearer and clearer that fundamentally this is nothing that one can choose or refrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. But how much better it is to recognize that we are alone; yes, even to begin from this realization. It will, of course, make us dizzy; for all points that our eyes used to rest on are taken away from us, there is no longer anything near us, and everything far away is infinitely far. — Rainer Maria Rilke

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. — Honore De Balzac

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves. — Carl Sagan

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog. — Christopher Hitchens

Is he right, about my creating excitement where I can? Even being melodramatic?

You went on a half-baked vengeance quest against Paul using a totally untested experimental device, I think. He might possibly have a point. — Claudia Gray

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means. — Mahatma Gandhi

Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you desire to go stick your head in a blender. — Perry Noble

I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity. — Leila Janah

The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine. — Martin Luther

Tigana, let my memory of
you be like a blade in my
soul. — Guy Gavriel Kay

MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously. — Megan Alexander

God, thank you for this cake and Finn's chain saw," Gabe says. "Are you happy? — Maggie Stiefvater

Love can blind you, but woe to one who becomes both blind and deaf. — Matshona Dhliwayo