"And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile."
Alexis Hall
"Books are a portable kind of time travel. We go back as well as forward when we read them. When we come back into the now, after being immersed in worlds previously unknown to us, we find ourselves, transformed. Touched by their magic, nothing we ever perceived beforehand remains quite the same."
Suzy Davies
"People fall short. Your finger-pointing hurts you more than it does them. Less judgement. More compassion."
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
"When ppl say they got ur back. Is like saying I'll pray for u. They don't actually do it. It just sounds good at the moment. Depend on self."
J. Wrice Sr.
"The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way."
Alan Hodgkin
"Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers."
Patrick O'Brian
"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure."
Dejan Stojanovic
"History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own."
Julius Lester
"Never practice magic when you're drunk."
Assaph Mehr
"Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story."
Amy Engel
"Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth."
John Quincy Adams
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
Socrates
"Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?"
Narendra Modi
"The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves."
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