Zihin Engelliler Quotes & Sayings

Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and must be reckoned with soberly. They cannot be laughed away, nor always successfully stormed at, nor easily abolished by act of legislature. And yet they must not be encouraged by being let alone. They must be recognized as facts, but unpleasant facts; things that stand in the way of civilization and religion and common decency. They can be met in but one way - by the breadth and broadening of human reason, by catholicity of taste and culture. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Your dream will keep you awake until you take a grip. — Euginia Herlihy

The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in our real lives, we know very little about our parents as they were before our birth; we have only fragmentary knowledge of the people close to us: we see them come and go and scarcely have they vanished than their place is taken over by others: they form a long line of replaceable beings. Only the novel separates out an individual, trains a light on his biography, his ideas, his feelings, makes him irreplaceable: makes him the center of everything. — Milan Kundera

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy. — Rabindranath Tagore

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. — Joan Didion

Each of us, looking at Jesus Christ, should remember the price of greatness — Sunday Adelaja

YOU are the next big thing. — Bill Jensen

What's real? I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be. — Sherman Alexie

I can't remember how to cry. — Sherman Alexie

Money is a response. We use it to express our social values, our gratitude, our appreciation, our pleasure, our support. Money gives us the ability to respond (response-ability), and its empowering use often defines the truly responsible among us. — Rosalie Maggio

Let us live for passion,/ for the taking off of clothes,/tossing them over our shoulder. — Susan Browne

For most of my life, I've been working under the paradigm that my behavior should, ideally, have a logical basis. But if you live biblically, this is not true. I have to adjust my brain to this. You — A. J. Jacobs

Father knew he might die that day, and he went anyway. — Catherine Jones Payne

The world exploded when he passed by. Ashes were all he left behind. — Timothee De Fombelle

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am. — M. Night Shyamalan