Contentnea Savannah Quotes

#1. But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.

Sarah Dessen

#2. One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

Aldo Rossi

#3. You can never run from your past; it defines who you are today. But, use your Awo given intelligence and enjoy the future ... because THAT only comes once.' VAALBARA The Land of Shadows

Michelle Horst

#4. Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#5. Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See
no weapons"? But no one could think of anything better.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

Gladys Taber

#7. This is over 10 years in the making for me and just a dream come true. I'm the luckiest person in the world.

AJ Lee

#8. I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

Hannah Arendt

#9. I say that it's the joy that others take in me, It's this that is the cause of my delight.

Santideva

#10. One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.

Sarah Dessen

#11. With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.

Robert Pollok

#12. There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Laurence Sterne

#13. Mankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival.

Wes Fesler