Vinjay Quotes & Sayings

To embrace the contingency of one's life is to embrace one's fate as an ephemeral but sentient being. As Nietzsche claimed, one can come to love that fate. But to do so one must first embrace it, though one instinctively recoils at such a prospect. — Stephen Batchelor

Racial reasoning conceals these presuppositions behind a deceptive cloak of racial consensus - yet racial reasoning is seductive because it invokes an undeniable history of racial abuse and racial struggle. — Cornel West

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon. — Markus Zusak

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people. — Peter Dinklage

I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner
every time she ran, I ran. — Wilma Rudolph

The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars ... "
"You'd get arrested all over again."
"Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait." He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless ... — Rachel Caine

I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important ... something that would make a difference in people's lives or leave an imprint in history. — Evangeline Lilly

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it. — Brian Aldiss

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies
these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either. — C.S. Lewis