Zimandu Quotes & Sayings

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. — Tahir Shah

I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice. — Nikki Giovanni

Consecration would soon be changed into sanctification if we would only concentrate on what God wants. — Oswald Chambers

Though I've known you a short time, I feel I know you intimately. Not your life but you, your emotions, your dreams, your aspirations. — Henry Miller

You're looking at me like I'm food." She held out her carrot, grinned wickedly. "Want some?" I shook my head. "I want you. — Christina Lauren

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations. — Robert Maynard Hutchins

Now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge. — Lois Lowry

Everyone starts life with a fire in their soul; sadly most are snuffed out in the storms of life. — Orrin Woodward

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react. — Edward Ball

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them.
"Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin
if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting. — Norton Juster

I wish you could see yourself through my eyes. Every woman who's met you wants a shot at you. How could you ever think you're the consolation prize? — Jamie McGuire

None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives. — Garth Greenwell

The strange fact that out of millions of people in the world, your mother and father met and decided to get married to each other. And out of the millions of sperm, that the one with your genes was the one that made it to the egg and fertilised the egg. I'll never forget it. — A. J. Jacobs