Zhadir Quotes & Sayings

Nobody can help me, those are my secrets, scarring my soul just as surely as that razor blade scarred my thighs all those years ago. — Cindy Vine

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. — Douglas Coupland

The shit is *not* the shit (this was Mo's mantra,) the *pigeon* is the shit. — Zadie Smith

God has already been in your tomorrow, and is working on your today. — Virginia Martin

But that's why you built the towers, isn't it? Weren't the towers built as fantasies of wealth and power that would one day become fantasies of destruction? You build a thing like that so you can see it come down. The provocation is clear. What other reason would there be to go so high and then to double it, do it twice? It's a fantasy, so why not do it twice? You are saying, Here it is, bring it down. — Don DeLillo

The whole world is pressing in on me, like a weight on my chest, slowly pushing me down and down. And there's nothing between me and this weight but my flimsy skin. It's not enough. It won't protect me. It doesn't keep anything out. The outside will keep pressing in until my ribs are crushed, and then my organs, my heart and liver and stomach ... — Natalie Standiford

It should not be thought that war, often accompanied by genocide, is a cultural artifact of a few societies. Nor has it been an aberration of history, a result of the growing pains of our species' maturation. Wars and genocide have been universal and eternal, respecting no particular time or culture. — Edward O. Wilson

I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time. — Janet Jackson

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. — William Shatner

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much. — Mary Baker Eddy

From both my families, I've learnt important things.

From my family of chance, I learnt what it was like to be alone and unrecognized, to be perceived through the prism of delusion, a lost soul marooned in the belly of bedlam. I learned the beauty and power of language, but also its capacity for subtle perfidy, how it can be used to subvert and distort reality, to sanction cruelty and sugarcoat abuse. I learned that words can be the path to freedom or just another lock on the caged door.

And from my family of choice, I learn on a daily basis about love and loyalty, about burdens shared and intimacies treasured, about forgiveness and atonement and joy. I learn about the gift of a difficult childhood and the fact that 'it's never too late to have a happy one. — Lucy Taylor

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered. — David Seabury

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. — Charles Kingsley

It's torture, not being able to talk to him!! She's been so, so worried. How she hopes he's finally doing better now and sleeping soundly. — Elizabeth Scott

I'm just the last English twit, really. — Colin Firth