Xanda Quotes & Sayings

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power. — Michael Leunig

I started to sway Lexi again when I realized she was quiet. Waiting. Both of us paused on the cusp of the unknown. I couldn't go backward or even retrace my own steps, let alone Xanda's. I could only go forward. The threads of time weren't unraveling but weaving into a tapestry
a future, and a hope.
The only way to discover was to step into it. — Holly Cupala

Capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature. — Dinesh D'Souza

The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go soft
to be seated on children's eyes. — Suman Pokhrel

My curls defined me; even my personality was curly, bouncy, springy, and playfully twisted. — Elise Allen

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. — Albert Schweitzer

We've prosecuted police, dozens of them over the years. — Robert P. McCulloch

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would. — David Edward Jenkins

I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a face like a mask. Envy was a treasure-hoarding dragon, dainty and diabolical. As I sketched in the dragon's face, I gave her eyebrows like mine, my turtle necklace around its scaly neck.
Xanda drew them as cliffs and valleys, irrevocably linked pride as a mountain, envy as a valley, hating its lowness and longing to reach, overtake, conquer. She drew vanity as a volcano with an abyss at its core. — Holly Cupala

Yam hi na vyathayanthy,
ete purusan purursarsabha,
Sama-dhuka-sugam dhirm
so mrtavaya kalpate - Bhagavt Gita

"The person who is not disturbed by happiness or distress and steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation — Bhagavatam

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men — Wallace Pratt