Baraf Ni Quotes

#1. We come into this world crying and calling, wailing and singing; and for the first months of our life all our needs and instincts, our dissatisfactions and discoveries are immediately vocalized without apology and without censor.

Paul Newham

#2. War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.

Paul Di Filippo

#3. Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#4. If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#5. You cannot control what you love
you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

Graham Greene

#6. XIX. An Opinion XX. A Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still

Charles Dickens

#7. The Christian-Judaic God does not exist, and if He did exist as described in the Bible, He would certainly not be a good role model.

Robert Sherrill

#8. In our house, reading was the primary group activity. On Saturday afternoons we curled up with our books in the den. It was the best of both worlds: you had the animal warmth of your family right next to you, but you also got to roam around the adventure-land inside your own head.

Susan Cain

#9. Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

Mary Karr

#10. Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

Jonathan Powell